Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.

But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.

I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.

I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.

Birth The first and direst of all disasters.

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

People are just way too sensitive. You couldn't have a show like 'Archie Bunker' on TV. People would go crazy; they would lose their minds.

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

Woodstock is the only thing we have going for us in this part of the state in terms of national recognition. The idea is to extract what was good about Woodstock, repackage it, and present it to Middle America.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it.

A great Dermalogica facial every few weeks, and lots of sleep over the weekend are essentials. I also drink lots of water which really helps to hydrate the skin and keep it looking fresh.

Many online journals get the most hits of the day during the lunch hour.

By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.

I've not gotten so much stuff because I improvise in an audition, but I always feel like, if that's the case, the reason is because it wouldn't have worked out anyway with us working together.

I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.

'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.

To get what he wanted a man had to give other people what they wanted.