Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

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.

And Meredith and Bonnie, who's going to bend some spoons for us next. I'm going to throw you down a rope… that is, unless Bonnie can levitate you out.

New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.

The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.

I don't think you can know God unless you're passionate about him so you're either screaming at him, enraptured with the idea of being around him or feeling him in your life.

In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.

The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.

And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish