I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.

Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.

I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

If you give your work life, your work will give you life. Vies-versa

We think too much and feel too little.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

Explore daily the will of God.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

Salvation is the root-the resurrection is the fruit.

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.