An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.

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...

When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

What is it that you want to do, or put out into this world that is greater than your fear?

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.

Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

Michael Jackson has a new baby boy; no word yet who the father is.

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

He who never hurries is always on time.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

The best style is the style you don't notice.