But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

I never had a chance to learn how to drive.

I wish I were that cat.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

Make a good use of the present.

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

You're going to set us all on fire, you homicidal feral fruitcake.

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.