We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

Art is a sense of magic.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.

What you need is more important than what you want.

More and more you empty your mind, more and more you come closer to the spirit in the body.

It’s as predictable as the tide and the moon. It ebbs and flows. Death comes and it goes.

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.

I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble.

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.