My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.

One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends.

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

I have lots of ideas. Trouble is, most of them suck.

As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated.

I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.

Greatest risk is not development of new product, but development of customers and markets

Life is hard if you think it's hard.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.