People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are important.

I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!

A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Makin' veterans run for medicine, Cause I put out more lights in a fight than ConEdison.

What people believe prevails over the truth.

In teaching, I like being able to present clips from movies on VHS or DVD and then talk about them. That's what this movie is.