Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

You see the world much better through a camera.

Memory is not frozen, it's very much alive, it moves, it changes.

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?

I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the creation of those suicide terrorists, is Israel and the difficulty with the Palestinian issue.

I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.

I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

I let my summer days pass idly on.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

The only way to do it is to do it.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.