All religions have always hated females.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

Such hungry desperation in a single kiss when it's enamored in love and bathed in bliss.

The universal mind acts as an advisor or guide. When you abide by its advice then you will get another opportunity to alter your destiny.

Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results.

I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.

I can’t describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them.

Learn your lines… plant your feet… look the other actor in the eye… say the words… mean them.

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Sometimes you have go into a movie and develop a certain type of chemistry with your co-stars. Sometimes it can click from "Hello" and other times it takes a few weeks to develop that.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.