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...

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.

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not act now, we risk slipping into a cycle of poverty, degradation, and despair.

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

Telepathy, both simultaneous and precognitive, is now an experimentally established fact.

If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.

The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.

I need you like the blues needs the pain.

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.

Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.

Stop it, Mom, you're making me blush.