This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

Taiki was watching the kings talk, feeling the kind of happiness that can only come after a long sorrow.

Always take a compliment, even if it’s not yours

I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.

To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

Not too worried about fighting for titles, but just fighting the best competition at the Welterweight division. I'll be happy with that.

To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.

Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.

Can you imagine a demon auction? Serial killer going once...twice...sold to the drama queen at the corner.

Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, "Here! Have them all!

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.