I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

It's delicious, ’ he announces, chewing my sandwich. 'I would like to stay here forever and die with you in my arms.' 'I don't know. I think it's too cold for forever, ' I say, smiling.

The best leaders have the ability to align people to their vision and motivate them to work passionately towards its fulfillment as if it were their own.

Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one.

You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and his will first in everything you do.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.