There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.

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.

Greatness emanates through endurance and triumph over the difficulties in life.

someday i will walk under the soul-blossom tree with my hand eternally woven in yours.

An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.

Whatever the reason, lying is a bad thing.

No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.

The most important thing in my life is Christ. He’s more important to me than winning or losing or whether I’m playing or not. Everything else is just a bonus.

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.