It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own.

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.

Gratitude is a Beautiful Virtue but don't get offended when ingratitude is shown or your good deeds.

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

My husband cannot throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time. I can't believe they dropped the ball so many times.

There is always the personal, simple happiness that doesn't happen.

God is glorified when His people find satisfaction in Him and in His provisions for them.

Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment

I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year

The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist.

The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.