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**** "In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side" [Hagakure in Ghost Dog] **** "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite" [William Blake in Dead Man] **** "Comes the broken flower - Comes the cheated maid - Though the tempest lower - Rain and cloud will fade" [Broken Flowers] **** "Look, I don\'t care if you\'re green or blue like a carrot! For me the word \'color\' doesn\'t mean anything. I feel colors... but you\'d never understand that! " [Blind Woman in Night on Earth] **** "You know, it\'s funny... you come to someplace new, and... and everything looks just the same" [Eddie in Stranger Than Paradise] **** "Well, you know, you only need one leg to get around on if that\'s all you got. But it sure helps having two" [Newsvendor in A Mystery Train] **** "Caffeine leads to depression... makes you all irritable, have your heart beating fast. Faster heart rate, you know what I mean? And worse than anything, you drink that coffee, it gives you the shits. You know what I mean? So I try to stay away from that" [RZA in Coffee and Cigarettes] **** "Cigarettes and coffee, man, that\'s a combination" [Iggy in Coffee and Cigarettes] **** "Who the fuck are you? And where the fuck am I?" [A Man in Night on Earth] **** "You always makin\' big plans for tomorrow. You know why? Because you always fuckin\' up today" [Bobbie in Down by Law] **** "Stupid fucking white man" [Nobody in Dead Man] **** "It\'s time for you to leave now. Back to the place where all the spirits came from, and where all the spirits return. This world will no longer concern you" [Nobody in Dead Man] **** "In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things" [Hagakure in Ghost Dog]

****”"I have nothing to do with the filming community in Budapest. They don\'t like me, because I don\'t make conventional films. I can\'t talk with them about films, because I live and think differently than them. They are film makers and I am not. I don\'t know what I am" ****”I\'m appalled by today\'s cinema. I think spectators want less and less a demanding cinema” ****”I feel deeply fed up. I\'m going to quit cinema” ****”I can\'t stand this fucking polite equality” ****”I just think about the quality of human life and when I say \'shit\' I think I\'m very close to it” ****”No, I don\'t want to die” ****”I never compromised” ****”The more desperate we are, the more hope there is” [Béla Tarr]

****”I am not out to win prizes – that is for dogs and horses” ****”I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously” ****”Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism” ****”I make films to rid myself of pain, like ridding yourself of a nightmare” ****”I have always tried to strive for a much deeper truth”**** “I see planets that don\'t exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed” ****”Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honor and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes” ****“Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable” ****”Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness” ****”My belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you is that I can articulate them” ****”We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field ****”I am old-fashioned” ****”I should not make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum****[Werner Herzog]