My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.

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.

The man with the most guns survives the zombie apocalypse, but the man with the most books, locks the door and forgets it ever happened.

Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.

Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.

A man's idee in a card game is war

I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.

It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

Bodies wear out to remind us they are temporary, and force us to spend more thought on our spirits

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.