If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

Stars are out and there is seaenough beneath the glistening earthto bear me toward the futurewhich is not so dark. I see.

Happiness is the fragrance, not the fruit of an action.

Broken boys are dangerous, but broken men are lovely.

They're selling postcards of the hanging.

Reality isn't what it used to be.

A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.

The only real security is in having lots of opportunity. But risk is the price to pay for opportunity. And risk is scary.