I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

Good films can be made only by a crew of Dedicated Maniacs.

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

Don't make jokes about food.

Water was how the desert would bring everyone together. The antelope's daily prayer, weighing the mortal need of water with the mortal danger of obtaining it.

President Trump's health care plan is a human rights disaster.

Try to resist copying a blueprint from another person's ministry.

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

Imagine somebody says you are going to die in a few weeks; I'd really rather not know.

My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write to find my place, or to find once again that I have lost my place.

Nature has inclined us to love men.

In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

Accept your life and what it brings, I know tomorrow you find better things.