Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive.

I was delighted with Baku. People said I was completely mad; I was so happy when it all turned out all right.

The United States must lead the world in reversing climate change. We can do that.

Life is too short to be serious

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.

Our very eyes Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.