In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

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.

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .

We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

I was thinking it was worth the risk if it meant forever with my faery girlfriend.

It took me a while to accept that I'm not going to have the curves other girls get.

Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.