Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.

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.

When coming back, we may notice we have changed because others haven’t.

What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?

I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.

Making [Pineapple Express] was a blast. I'd kind of gotten to the point professionally where I was pretty emotionally exhausted from making dramatic films.