Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

So many people set off in a direction in life but don’t think things completely through first.

The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?

Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?

No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me; For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

Hey, Vader, keep your Jedi mind tricks to yourself. That hurt! (Jesse)

Getting out of the comfortable path, that's what exploration is all about.