I want an actor to try to give me what I ask in the best and most exact way possible. He mustn't try to find out more, because then there's the danger that he'll become his own director.

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.

The bravest thing you will ever do is love again.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Look, moonI turned silver for you.

How can we fully appreciate the redemption Jesus performed unless we fully understand from what we were redeemed?

I think a person who wants too much is asking to be disappointed.... I'd like to be good at just one thing.

To have a body is to suffer.

Fate is written in the face.

Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.