I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

A dolly move is a moral commitment.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

I need to accept God’s love and forgiveness, turning away from my sin and toward Him starting every day anew just as His mercies are new every morning.

I love the DJ scene out in the clubs. It is a great way to party and make people happy, the atmosphere is one that I use as an escape from reality.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.