I believe there's only good cinema and bad cinema.

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.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

You're re-accessing your natural energy, your natural information, your knowledge of yourself, of your sacred self.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

After you've done the first feature, then you have heck of a difficult time getting your second film off the ground. They look at your first film and they say, "Oh well, we don't want you anymore."

Don't waste your energy on those who don't get on your bus.

If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.

Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.

I don't always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.