I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?

God, no. I don’t want to tame her, I want to watch her. I just want to watch her be herself – it turns me on like nothing else.

You dont do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world

I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.

I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.

We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly.

For the Jedi, there is no emotion; there is peace.