Another reason for switching to color is world television. In a few years, it will all be in color, and you can't compete against that with black-and-white films.

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.

As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.

hough we travel the whole over to find the perfect match, we must carry it with us a light or it's playing hard to catch.

Giving opens the door to abundance.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

My observation continues to confirm me more and more in the opinion, that to experience religion is to experience the truth of the great doctrines of Divine grace.

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.