I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

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.

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.

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.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives.

In today's society, Christians have a bad rap for things like holding picketing signs, screaming mantras of hate, and bombing abortion clinics. Somehow, I don't think that's showing love.

When you set your mind to achieve something, you must allow yourself the opportunity to get it done.

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

Well, the big story -- Hillary Clinton will be running for president in 2008. You know why I think she's running? I think she finally wants to see what it's like to sleep in the president's bed.

I don't need to improve the look of my own if I don't even know what it looks like.

For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard.

If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, "Shop around, I don't think you'll find a better bargain than here."