Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

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

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

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

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Fate is written in the face.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

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

You exist only in what you do.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.

I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.

If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.

If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.

In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world... As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream.

When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

No matter what happens always keep your childhood innocence. Its the most important thing.

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self we gain immeasurably.

If you see with innocent eyes everything is divine.

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

The visionary is the only realist.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.