It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.

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 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.

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.

I was determined to get them away from the idea that their education is a private experience.

Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.

The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.

The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.

It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.

Home is where the heartache is.

I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.