I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis.

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.

Without the right succession planning put to play in human resources, we build for the future without a future

Everyone is entitled to making bad decisions from time to time, but the true test is in how you handle things after those decisions have been made.

By precipitating change, you'll create value. Those that do this best will win.

Existence begins in every instant.

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know.

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

Thank you to Italy. That is a crazy country but beautiful.

Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.

Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is. Just go on becoming more and more aware you will find your life changing for the better in every possible dimension. It will bring great fulfilment