Nature is Satan's church.

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.

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows

The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold.

You need to be surrounded by people whose voices echo your soul voice.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

Even as a kid- do all kids think about this? I hope they don’t, I hope my kids don’t think about this- I was always thinking about, "Well, what are we doing? What is this all about?"

If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.

I've done so many dramas in my life, and people don't even know I came from comedy.

By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.