Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep cinematographically, as a poet, a painter, lives, eats, sleeps painting.
I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.
I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late '50s, early '60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism. I think cinema all over the world was influenced by it, which was Italy finding its freedom at the end of fascism, the end of the Nazi invasion. It was a kind of incredible energy. Then, late '50s, early '60s, the neo-realism lost its great energy and became comedy.
I remember being young in the 1960s. . . we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
It's worrying to think more than half the world's population lacks internet access and therefore lacks an equal opportunity to improve their lives.
Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.
A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.
Being on a mission-not thinking about myself and focusing on serving other people-is what brought me closer to God than anything else.