Directors don't always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan.

I don't think it will ever be too late for her, that she still holds out hope that one day he'll see what he left for never replaced what he gave up.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.

Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.

They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling. God help us all.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture.

Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others.