Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Observation is an old man's memory.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters.

A sad truth I learned as a DP starting out was that it doesn't matter how beautiful I make it if the story and performance are not there. That should be number one.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'