That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.

The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a symbol of morality while getting their actual morality from more modern principles.

My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

I don't want a huge wedding. I don't want it to be some huge spectacle.

I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

I only wear these crop tops because other clothes would make me sweat when I dance.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Once he's on the run, Messi is unstoppable. He's the only player who can change direction at such a pace.

People you are emotionally open to can drain your power level or raise it tremendously, depending on what their intentions are.

Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.

We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.