I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

What is it with us?

Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

Follow your heart and you won't get lost.

For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.

I'm always interested in finding the new trend. If you love pizza every day, after 22 years of eating pizza, you want to try sushi.

I think it went Twilight, Welcome to the Rileys, New Moon, Runaways, then Eclipse, so it was like one of those movies between each Twilight movie.

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

I think the kazoo and chocolate-chip cookies have a lot in common. All you need is a mouth to appreciate either one.