Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

I tried for about two semesters in a preparatory seminary. But I was about 15 and didn't fully understand what a vocation means.

Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.