Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.