Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.

The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning

On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.

A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, but not in a world in which a Hays Office exists.

Learn about art, Captain. When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

What must I do to be saved? Believe in the Saviour, Jesus Christ.

If you want a good friend, you need to be a good friend!

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.

Being self-supporting is important to me.

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.

I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.

The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.