I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

You were given your life to make it a solution to the problems of the world but it is only through time conversion that you can create that solutions that the world needs.

Adversity kills fearful people just by showing them its weapons. As to whether that weapon is fatal or fake, they don't care to know before they surrender!

I think aerials is designed for China and I'm happy to be the one to make this a reality.

What's broken can always be fixed What's fixed will always be broken

Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.

I think for any director, male or female, it would be just to be prepared, work hard, and not give up! As my agent once told me, it's all about stamina before you ever end up on set!

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.