I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.

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.

See with the eyes of love and a thing becomes beautiful. See with the eyes of hate and things are ugly.

Loving spirits are with you every step of the way, cheering you on and offering help when they can. You are never alone.

What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

My thoughts lead me in the direction of healing, prosperity, connection, and grace-filled experiences.

Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.

When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.