I'm not rich and maybe I'll never be rich. Money is useful - yes - but I don't worship it.

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.

we talk of plans that are going to happen.we talk of the future, as if we know we will last.there is a sort of comfort in that.

Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad to get what you need.

Friendship isn't measured in days, months or years, it's measured in the way someone makes you feel.

People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen

It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes.

One Ranger is all you'll ever need. - Ranger

It was a nightmare having cameras in the house 10 hours a day for a month.

The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.