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

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.

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.

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

Don't make jokes about food.

No matter what I did, I was hurting someone. There was a constant battle of emotions going on inside my head, but even though I still cared about Tom all I wanted, all I needed, was Mika.

The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.

Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them -- always.

When a guy says "I have no idea what you're talking about" it means "I'm thinking of exactly what you're saying I did while I lie to you."

Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne.

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

I'm 84 years old. Don't let the altar-boy face fool you.

Change is the one thing we can be sure of.

The persecution of genius fosters its influence.

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.