It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.

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...

If people aren't on board with your dreams, there is still that one man canoe. Sail on and slay on with it.

There is nothing more real and more important in life than the love that we give away and the love that we receive.

That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.

A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me.

ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing.

In real life, holidays are extremely stressful. They're the best of times and worst of times because you have got people trying to get along with people that you don't always get along with.

The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.