Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

The foundation of all civilization is loitering.

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

Failure is inevitable, success is optional.

Every second and minute that you are not sleeping should be converted, investing your life and your time into doing that thing that you were born to do.

...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.

You're weak because you're afraid of people seeing your weakness. You're letting shame decide who you are.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

In every other aspect of their life, we have entertainment that is crafted almost to an individual. So they expect that from stand-up as well.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

Ignisecond, n.: The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!"

May you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, and do unto others as you'd have done to you.