You exist only in what you do.
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.
No matter what happens, always keep your childhood innocence. It’s the most important thing.
If I’m a cruel satirist at least I’m not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.
The visionary is the only realist.
Life is a combination of magic and pasta.
Regrets are a waste of time. They’re the past crippling you in the present.
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set.
Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.
I never make moral judgments; I’m not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.
For people who live in the imagination, there is no lack of subjects. To seek for the exact moment at which inspiration comes is false. Imagination floods us with suggestions all the time, from all directions.
Nothing is more honest than a dream.
Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.
I always direct the same film. I can’t distinguish one from the other.
The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.
It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
As I don’t consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep down I feel that criticism of my work-which is the most sincere and authentic vision of myself-is unsuitable and immodest, whether it is favorable or unfavorable.