Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

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.

It is not money that is important, it is life that is important and precious.

If only I had wings, I would not hesitate to fly away from my mistakes.

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

So many people commute in this country by car long enough distances to really cut into their income, their real income, that they would change their vote based on gas prices.

I'm sure that the liability for doing a tracheotomy would be tremendous. You make one mistake, and it's over. Most doctors won't even do it.

Integers are the fountainhead of all mathematics.

That's my thing - keep filled with faith. Keep doing what you can do and I believe God will do what you can't do.

I do believe that leaders have to be held to a higher standard, especially Christian leaders. I put myself in that camp.

I found my happy place the minute I saw you

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.