I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

Poverty Frost Famine Rain Disease are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

A bird who can gobble is qualified to teach crowing.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

The specific media may change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia.

It's time for artists to take their music back.

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.