We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act.