Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.
Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate. . . . The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation.
Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.
Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?