There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience.

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.

If it gathers dust, give it away ...

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

The secretary of Homeland Security working with myself and my staff will begin immediate construction of a border wall.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.