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

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.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

I work to stay alive.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.