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.

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 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.

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

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.

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

I feel like you can't just have fashion for fashion's sake.

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

Mary Baker Eddy is said to have had a phone installed in her coffin just in case she happened to wake up. I've been told that's an urban myth. Somebody should check it out.

I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a much greater sense of the value of life and of what life can be.

Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.

Each moment is a moment of choice and your commitments keep you true to yourself, choice by choice.