Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.

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.

She was home, the passage walls, memorabilia of Ben's life, past and present, welcomed her like a doting grandmother.

The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?

Any self-realized being has access to the dynamic genius which nature gives all beings.

And you're wasted with your ladies. Yeah I'm the reason why you always getting faded.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.

When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject.