Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

So we came to say hello. To the world’s grouchiest person. Because that’s such fun.

And third my Dad doesn't like you.He won't tell me whybut he's a smart man.If he doesn't like you I cant likeyou, either.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

Love is born in fire, is planted like a seed. Love cannot give you everything, but it gives you what you need.

In order to stay out of trouble I worked in industry. You can't even do that nowadays; there were all those factories.

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.