I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

A film you can explain in words is not a real film.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

Failure is a friend if we can see past the face of the foe that we project on it.

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

If I had it to do over, I'd vote for Obama without hesitation. I'm very thankful that McCain and Palin aren't in office.

And when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star.

I strongly believe in Scouting. ... It's a source of great strength to us.

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.

The word 'Sudra' which means 'Son of prostitute' should not find a place even in the history hereafter. We will not allow it to find a place in the dictionary or encycl

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.