I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

A film you can explain in words is not a real film.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. ("Kill them all. For the Lord knoweth them that are His." Supposedly said when asked by a Crusader how to distinguish the Cathars from the Catholics.)

You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.

Ain’t no good ever comes of it, if you ain’t steering yourself.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.

Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.

I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.

About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don’t work.

A world to be born under your footsteps.

I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.