There are many ways of communicating. Some hold the theory that new forms of communication between people can be obtained through hallucinogenic drugs.

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.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise

I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

Great posture is the foundation that always fits.

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist!

Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.