When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

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.

The cost of independence has dropped.

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself.

I wanted to get us a place of our own with a little bit more space. The kitchen is just huge, because my mom... lives there, man, and she loves being in the kitchen.

Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.

When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body.

On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.

TLC should stand for Toddlers, Lunatics, and Cake.

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.