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

Art is a sense of magic.

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.

If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.

Let your only graduation be in the grave.

It makes a soul lonely when even your tongue has no home.

An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New"...

Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global responsibility.

Violence will only increase the cycle of violence.

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

Renew your intention EVERY day, EVERY time you pray, and EVERY time you are about to do a good deed or else shaytan will lead your heart and mind astray.

They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever.