I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

This is perhaps the hardest truth of any to grasp. Do we wake up every morning amazed that we are loved by God?

If you appreciate, perpetuate and explore your own dreams, then you'll know that dream isn't a one-way communication.

Every time you pray if your prayer is sincere there will be new feeling and new meaning in it which will give you fresh courage and you will understand that prayer is an education.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.

Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

When we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.

Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.