Itch to read, scratch to understand.

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.

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

As far as it’s ideal that you get helped by people, it doesn't mean they are compelled to make your dreams come true without your own efforts.

One word of caution—be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.

All works of art should begin... at the end.

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.

A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won't want to gossip.

It's almost as if our society values opinion over knowledge.

A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

Without revealing too much, there's a specific skill set you need to be in Loki's army - let me know if you have the qualifications.