Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

If they really want us to be happy, they'd let us pick ourselves.

... it is strange to know you would be cast off by the people who greet you so warmly, if they knew the whole truth about you.

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man.

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

There is always room for at least two truths.

Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

It is true that there is nothing too great for God's power; and it is just as true that there is nothing too small for His love.

Disruption on the first day always looks like a toy.