I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.

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.

Life is a journey of time within the mind.

I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

I was a pretty bad person early in my life.

There's those who talk about it. And there's those who BE about it!

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that.

Our attention to each breath keeps us in the now.