I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.

But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm just an old drama queen, really.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.