I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Love is my inner strength and my power.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

What is more terrifying-- the things we imagine or the things that are real?

She was a planet, way out in space, out of its orbit, and he was an unmanned spaceship, taking measurements of the atmosphere. She was not suitable for habitation.

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

Filming is repetition and many takes

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.