Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.

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.

The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.

My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.

Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

My favourite road sign is 'Falling Rocks'. What exactly am I supposed to do with that information? They may as well have a sign saying "Random accidents ahead", "Life's a lottery, Be lucky."

Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.

I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.

When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.

Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.