I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

No, but it’s not because I’m getting older that I’m trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I’m getting.

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.

When you define yourself with your material possessions, you would likely attract those who would do anything humanly possible to come into your life to take advantage of you.

Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

Donald Trump was elected by people who believe Washington has too much power.

I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.

Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.