After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

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.

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

Nothing is as changeable as our own life.

In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.

I don't mind answering any questions, because I'm not just a fighter. I'm a lot more than that.

He asked me if I had adequate health insurance.

If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.

I saw The Rev the other night and he was on like four different things. He was like, Dude, Ive been gone for three days!

Retailers are treating everyone the same way who walks in their stores and this doesn't make sense in the world we live in where all customers are not equal.

I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party