The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

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.

People before Profit.

Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little.

Develop a cause beyond yourself. Try to leave the world a better place because you were here.

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.