(Landscapes) are too close to painting. And TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission. And you can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

Stay focused, accept everything as perfect and keep moving forward toward the direction of your goals.

You are mine, and Heaven itself cannot rescue you from my power.

I believe in you, even though I be outnumbered.

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

The stars incline, but do not impel.

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example.

Oregon is an inspiration. Whether you come to it, or are born to it, you become entranced by our state's beauty, the opportunity she affords, and the independent spirit of her citizens.

Change, like healing, takes time.