There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

If you can't climb a tree, shake it, and its fruit will fall.

Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime.

The only way I'll ever get hurt in the casino is if there's an earthquake and a slot machine falls on my foot.

What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?

I don't think, if anything, I don't think it's a feeling of hopelessness that people feel. I think if they feel - if they're feeling what we're feeling, it's that this is how we fight back.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men but is a gift from God.

No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

Women have different characteristics and needs than men do.