director Quotes

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.

• 298
• feelings

A different language is a different vision of life.

• 132
• vision

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity.

• 112
• curiosity

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

• 83
• Love

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

• 70
• Love

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

• 59
• Success

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

• 41
• funny

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

• 36
• trust

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

• 34
• arrogance

Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.

• 26
• Film

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

• 25
• books

Music stops you from thinking.

• 23
• music

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

• 20
• Goodness

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

• 19
• Luck

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

• 17
• death

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

• 17
• Reading

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

• 15
• movies

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

• 14
• dreams

My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else.

• 14
• funny

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

• 14
• Opinion

One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.

• 12
• considered

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

• 12
• Truth

Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.

• 12
• Sex

There's action only if there is danger.

• 11
• action

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

• 11
• Style

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

• 11
• Risk

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

• 11
• Passion

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

• 11
• Nation

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

• 11
• death

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

• 11
• Criticism

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

• 10
• Sex

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

• 10
• Reading

Life is a horizontal fall.

• 10
• Life

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

• 10
• Books

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

• 9
• anything

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

• 9
• Wisdom

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

• 9
• Marriage

Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.

• 8
• benefit

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

• 8
• heart

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

• 8
• Memory

I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

• 8
• Intuition

A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.

• 8
• Film

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

• 8
• Film

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

• 8
• DeceptionLying

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

• 7
• fiction

I miss my mother very, very much.

• 7
• miss

Today I saw a red and yellow sunset and thought, how insignificant I am! Of course, I thought that yesterday too, and it rained.

• 7
• Sunset

Marriage is the death of hope.

• 7
• Marriage

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

• 7
• Death

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

• 7
• Art