If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

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.

Be my God, so I can just be me.

The Top 4 Causes of Medical Problems: stress, negative mindset, poor diet, sedentary lifestyle.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

People say I'm going to be the next Oprah. But I say no, because Oprah is still Oprah. I'll be the next me. I feel like there's always a lane for me as long as I'm true to myself.

Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.

Some people are really good at packaging themselves, but that's not really me.

I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I'm a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent all my life.