For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job

Always distance yourself from gossip, because it is the worst form of self-disruption.

Never let your failures go to your heart or your successes go to your head.

By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

Unless there are pictures, I don't admit to anything.

Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.

I love to rock, but it's liberating not to always have to keep up with the freight train that is the Old 97's