One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government.

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.

You haven't got a letter on yours, " George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.

We can bring into being, the things we dream. So much of what we are is, limited or expanded by, what we think.

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly is always the love that is not returned.

Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.

There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.

My parents love each other. They work through their problems.

You know she's going to leave my broken heart behind her...

If you want to meet girls, by far the best method is to carry a baby or a puppy.

If you listen to certain things then you can hear music everywhere. But it's your perspective on 'what do I listen to, why do I listen, what's going on.' And then you have music.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.