An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters.

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

The kingdoms' people were at the mercy of the natures of those who rose to be their rulers. It was a gamble, and the current generation did not make for a winning hand.

Shane talking to Claire - "In this whole screwed up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," He whispered. "I love you, Claire

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.