Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

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...

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

He just wanted to see what a girl who was crazy enough to kill herself looked like.

Hugs usually mean more than just a hug.

You can’t get caught up in worrying about whether everyone you work with likes you. Ultimately you want the respect of your coworkers, but you don’t need them to be your buddies.

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.

The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water.

It felt smooth coming off my hands. I felt the laces around the ball. It was just all good.

I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.

I guess I'm a Luddite.

Hope is not a strategy.

What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.