Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

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...

He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced.

He missed him like he would miss the sun if it fell out of the sky.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

I was serious about retiring the first time, but the first week I was home my wife had SO many chores to do I went back.

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

Without having a goal it's difficult to score.

What I love the most about surfing is that it's my first love. It's the first thing I can remember being consumed by.

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.