Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.

Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this.

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.

I am dying of hunger.

But words - words are not enough!

I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague, more than ever.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

I make movies for money, exclusively for money.

It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.

I didn't choose solitude.

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me.

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.

The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake.

Fun? There is no fun.

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.

You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.

I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit - all of which are sky-high.

The sky, the sky beyond the door is blue.

With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to study such an object to another direction to study another object, and on the other hand to be able to maintain accurately the position in space.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.