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

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.

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

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

In my quest to search for knowledge, I know God, the source of knowledge.

Is there any riches like redemption?

It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.

The intellectual support for UNBELIEF is about as stable as the stock market.

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.

The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.

I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them.

I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain.

The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.

I personally like being a guy.