So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

Power and speed aren't enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you'll do before you do it and can turn it on you; someone who is mentally engaged and combines the whole package.

Great minds think for themselves.

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.

I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

I'm convinced that theatre is a horrible business. Make this the headline. You have to be on the spot every night as an actor. You are damn lonesome standing out there.