I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants

Time is a place where most of the relationships get lost. And, the ugliest part is that there are no lost and found boxes. There is no hope that you might get it back.

Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.

It did not take long to conclude that, without God, would never come to understand where the universe began and where it ended, where it came from him, where he would go

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

Law..is too important to be left to the lawyers.

I advocate speaking words of love with all the sincerity that can be mustered, as frequently as possible.

I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

Don't Fall in love, Rise in Love!