I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

A dolly move is a moral commitment.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

The earth has its music for those who will listen.

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

This whole 'X Factor' thing with people assuming I'm going to be a one-hit wonder - that won't happen with me.

In a morally healthy family the good of each member of a family includes and overlaps with the good of other members. When one family member flourishes, so typically do the others.

The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a member of this group has no clout with the state.

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.