Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that umbilical cord? Why do we have to pollute cinema?

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.

Go beyond the boundary of conformity to find the true joy of life.

What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds.

I miss you so much. I miss us. There’s not a day goes by that I don’t regret walking away from you.

When we have fallen and need to get back up again, we are able to do it in His strength walking in His Spirit. Cling to the Spirit of Christ Jesus - He will never fail.

I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.

At the end of the day you gotta feel some way. So why not feel unbeatable? Why not feel untouchable.

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.

We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.