Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.

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.

Anyone who remains silent in the face of murder is an accomplice to murder. Anyone who does not condemn approves.

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem.

What is working stain, does not soil.

I'm lucky that I've worked with so many different directors with very different styles and with a lot of different actors.

Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life.

Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle.

My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'

Nothing exists until it is measured.

You can tell when someone is just trying to use you. It becomes just someone who's hanging around. Whenever someone sucks up to me, it never goes anywhere because I'm too boring a guy.