Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

Life is not about reality. It is about how you perceive it.

You are my light in the darkness.

He wondered if it was safe to grin. Very slowly and carefully, he grinned. It was safe.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

So the storm passed and every one was happy.

When you see a close person you know pass in front of your eyes, it's hard core. After all that, I just wanted to enjoy every day. That was my goal. And to give thanks and to live fully.

I don’t know, Sage. You threw yourself in the line of pepper spray for me. You must like me just a little bit.” “I— I figured it’d be a shame to ruin your pretty face,” I stammered.

I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along.

Being brave doesn’t mean we have no fear - it means we refuse to be overcome by it.