A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

But sometimes genius is anything but rarefied

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare.

If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.

We remain united with the British, and our allies around the world, in our resolve to defeat terrorism and bring those who commit these acts to justice.

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

I didnt get this physique by not eating tacos.

I have given my all Funny how you could always make me feel small

The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.

Well, Bud," he said, looking at me, "I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then fighting. What do you do on your holidays? Burn houses?