Cinema has reached a dead end.

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 dragon in him didn't want to give her a choice. Just wrap around her and smolder smugly, daring anyone who came near to cross him. Mine.

Even the poorest among us deserves the dignity of equality.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion.

Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

It's the melody within the heart that helps us to endure.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.