My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.

We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle, and that's too bad, really.

Love is not ful of pittie (as men say) But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray.

As we hate ourselves less, we tend to hate other people less too.

I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.

Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence.

I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg

The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.