What am I doing as a filmmaker? What is the goal? To look for the unknown atmosphere that hasn't been described before. This is my only goal. Unknown images. Because if not, it's boring, no?

In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new.

Every phase of a film has to go against what was done in the previous one.

I like to be challenged. I like rebellion. It adds some richness and some interest to life.

The light within us can always identify our mind’s darkness

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.

Wars are fought on objectives, not on timetable, and that's why I've been so insistent upon not allowing ourselves to have policy driven by time table, but by objective.

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn't know it.

Inflation is essentially antidemocratic.

What you get is no longer what you see.

The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.

Compared with me, a tree is immortal.

It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different." That's the thing with violence in general.