A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

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.

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.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

I long to see everything to know everything to learn everything!

I want Scott to look at me the way Patch looks at you.

I'm very happy and excited to be a member of the Boston Red Sox.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

I love the thought of not knowing how things will turn out but the willingness to invest anyway.

Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help

If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.