When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

A film you can explain in words is not a real film.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

You're in the mirror, I am your image...

Wind blew snow crystals back and forth between the graves. The ancient pines creaked overhead.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

I don't want anything given to me.

Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.

An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else

God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

I do not fight for free. But I was born to be a fighter.

We, the comics that we like, we're all, like, post-humor.

I think Russia has already turned the toughest pages in its history. We're only moving forward now, only get stronger.