Everyone has his reasons.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

The foundation of all civilization is loitering.

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

Poverty with happiness is not a real poverty

Everyday people are not very good designers.

I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.

God has no other hands than ours.

As whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?

At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life.