You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

The truth is no one should hold you at a higher standard than yourself

Can I ride you next time? You can be my battle cat! That would be so cool!

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.

Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.

If you show people you don't care, they'll return the favor. Show them you care, they'll reciprocate.

I think we're living in a time when size is not a strategic advantage, necessarily.

I do not teach. I relate.