You cannot penetrate events with reportage.

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.

Fun and killing ain’t synonyms to regular folks, Zeus.”.

At that time, there was only one thing better that a good fight, and that was having a good fight and getting paid for it.

The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.

I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.

Our love is our life itself. What our love is like determines how we live and therefore everything about what we are as human beings.

Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

Everything without God is pathetically inferior to God without everything.

The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.