The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

Love is light. Light is life. Life is divine.

The frequency of your heart receives love.

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.

Results is all that separates one company from another.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.