We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer.

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.

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

We must be focused on the goal that God has revealed to us

Forgiveness is a promise not a feeling. When you forgive other people, you are making a promise not to use their past sin against them.

God opposes the proud. The way you get up front is do really good work in the back. Humility is a by product of spending time with Jesus - it is not a reflection of yourself

What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.

When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

You can always make a good film but for it to be successful, you need God's blessing.