What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.

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.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

Is this my best team ever? I won't know that for another 20 years or so.

I'm in relationship right now and one thing that I've loved about it is sharing the memories.

God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.

The best initial move for white is 1. P-K4.

I always try to read at night, because it gets me kind of tired.

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live.

all my wealth is in my memories.

And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever.