Some of the great pictures happen along the journey and not necessarily at your destination.
You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.
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.
Religions die slowly.
I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.
. . . the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and death would save a single human life or benefit humans in any way at all; but the same can be said of millions of their experiments performed each year in the United States alone.
When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.