The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

Love yourself because everyone is jealous of you.

Anytime you're away from your home filming, it messes with your head.

True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied — so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.

A cautious creative is an oxymoron.

No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

The biggest disease in North America is busyness.

Work done by human beings for human beings.