I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

The living world is a dream. The nocturnal dream is reality.

Through positive civil actions, the church can influence the society.

I am a woman of very few layers, and most of them are selfish and mean. My parents tried to make me a good girl, but I just wasn’t having it.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.

Let all beings in all the worlds be happy. Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.