The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

A film you can explain in words is not a real film.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose

Struggle only when if its absolute necessity, if you will struggle on every step you can never reach up to the goal.

It is in the doing that makes the being worthwhile.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.

I am too old to think.

I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven.

Movies, over time, as they do or don't find their audience, or they find a different audience, they change in your memory and in the eyes of those who see it.

There is a huge value placed in our world on doing what everyone else is doing and thinking as everyone else is thinking.