I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that umbilical cord? Why do we have to pollute cinema?

Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.

Inspiration is deeply personal. It’s your responsibility and no one else’s to inspire yourself.

You know very well what the right choice is, yet you keep making the wrong one.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

For, know that each soul constantly meets its own self. No problem may be run away from. Meet it now!

Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

Come on Sandy, baby, loosen up, your too tight.

Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.