I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship that begins to exist between his body and the other things in the scene.

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.

Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism.

Belief traps or frees us.

Rich people is people who only cares for themselves, and their money but, poor people doesn't care how much money they have because they have a big heart

What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, look!

God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs.

If you're funny, you can find a stage to get on. If you're good, you'll start to get work and eventually get paid.