I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don't find every day.

A person cannot tell the truth, if they don't live the truth & they can't live the truth, if they don't know the truth_ ♥ Cutting Truths

If you're good to your staff when things are going well they'll rally when times go bad.

Because all the monsters have been let out of their cages tonight, no matter what court they belong to. So I may roam wherever I wish until the dawn.

We cannot and must not sit back and let the anti-biblical world system determine the prevailing values of our day.

Music is such a powerful fundraising tool and it's so easy for me to share that and it's such a light.

The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

There's an invisible army of woman and men who really don't get why we give so much of ourselves to football. And they need to SPEAK UP.

All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him