“I dont like the idea of understanding a film. I dont believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it...”

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

“When I felt I was dying, these past few days, things were no longer anthropomorphic. The telephone, which looks like a sort of upturned black snake, was merely a telephone. Every thing was just a t...”

“Im a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because Ive invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me...”

“No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.”

“An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. Its this in-between that Im calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible w...”

“When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more atten...”

“There is eloquence in the tonguelesswind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of thereeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to somethingwithin the soul, awaken the ...”

“Throughout our history human beings have conducted and practiced all kinds of rituals and activities with the motivation of obtaining peace. We have fought wars in the name of achieving peace becau...”

“The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to ...”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“Silence is a powerful tool.”

“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”

“Dont cry and dont rage. Understand.”

“The only way to heal yourself was to understand. Understand the love or the hate or the cowardice, or the impulsiveness, the lack of will of the one who hurt you--the circumstances that twisted the...”