Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare social justice can never be attained.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says.

You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.

Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised