An actor is supposed to stop being himself and become something else. So a strange thing happens: this piece of machinery, the camera,...

dharma is – you may think of it as good karma, but even more than that it is the arising of one’s Light within, love and good wholesome...

Minnie then begins talking about how movies make suckers out of the audience by depicting romance as the norm of life, rather than a...

The problem with color is not a problem of color. It's something else entirely. It doesn't matter if color is good or bad. It's always...

That's the way it is, yea, middle-class, mundane, not very well-thought-out, living in the past and in childhood, in the times when...

I find my own flaws endlessly fascinating and more important than the stance of manhood, my work or being a husband.

Men work so they don't have to go home and face themselves.

A good craftsman loves the plank he planes.

Every idle word shall be counted.

It’s film that gives life to the characters— not the characters that give life to the film.

Improvisation comes from the actor's emotional connection to the material and the way he interpreted the script. That was the actor's...

Kerouac, Pollack and Monk

The complexity and beauty and symphony of thought; so many things contribute to the moment.

When I listen to myself only, I do wonders!

The public does not know what it wants, impose on it your decisions, your delights.

Hollow idea of “art cinema,” of “art films.” Art films, the ones most devoid of it.

God Is a metaphor for that which transcends words and thought.

The real, when it has reached the mind, is already not real anymore. Our too thoughtful, too intelligent mind. Two sorts of real: (1)...

Now that’s a strong foundation!

Easing God Out