Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

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.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.

Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you're going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain't going to touch my stuff.

I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.

Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us

The hedges are spruting like chicks from the eggs when they are newly hatched or as the vulgar says clacked.

If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.

It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs.

No one remembers who came in second.