A thousand years from now man will still be sighing: “Ah, how hard life is!”—Yet he will fear death, exactly as he does now, and be...

There is no respect for others without humility in oneself.

Either one knows what one lives for, or it is all futile, worthless.

If a man philosophizes, you‘ll get philosophy, or at least sophistry, but if a woman, or a couple of women, start philosophizing—it’s...

Haven’t we noticed the less talented a person is, the earlier he forms his ”convictions” and the longer he tenaciously clings to them.

Man feels himself younger and younger, the more he enters the world of imagination. He knows now that it was only the intellect that...

The marriage of Imagination, Atmosphere, and Qualities.

The Feelings of Ease, Form, Beauty and the Whole.

If the depth and breadth of conflict in the inner life and the greater world do not move you, let this: death. Death is like a freight...

Life is conflict.

Improvisation, whether in filmmaking or in music, is not simply a free flow of expression, but a rigorous and disciplined act of playing...

The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation…most people waste their precious time and die with the feeling they’ve fallen short of...

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

You lose authenticity when you analyze and rationalize.

Voice is the physical manifestation of the human soul.

My heroes are like castaways setting off for an unknown island.

Sounds and silences circulate in my memory like colors and smells. My films are tiny morsels made from combinations of sounds and...

Cinematography is the art of using images to not represent anything.

Yes, from the beginning, one has to be the absolute master of one’s ideas. At least—and even more so—when one is going to improvise.

I want the character that forms in front of the camera to be composed in small measure by what I want him to be and in much larger...