Poetry is a totally different art than film.

Art is a sense of magic.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning...for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference.

When you start a script you aim to hit a note you know you want to end in general.

The narrower we define autism, and the more strictly we control for particular behaviors, the more likely we are to find what I think are the subgroups of autism.

The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.

What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

Often the biggest test is when the chips are down and you've got to stick together as a team.

I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.

Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.