I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting.

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...

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

The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.

The desire for order is the only order in the world.

If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.

Waiting on the World to Change.

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.

I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.