I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.

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.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

Wow. Nice bike,” I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.

It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding.

Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.

He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.