It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a director, have to see the film as a whole. He must therefore collaborate selflessly, totally.

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.

Strong determination makes the distination shine.

Live today as if there will be many tomorrows!

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

The best way to prepare yourself for your own miracle is to rejoice in somebody else's.

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

Role model? I don't have one. I want to be one.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action.

Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.

Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.