“When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, “smoked salmon and Bach.” (Now, sixty years later, my answer would be the same.)”

“I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.”

“The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.”

“For a thousand years I have been asking myself, "what will I do now?" And still I need not answer.”

“I am often asked is [my work] science fiction or fantasy and my answer is usually ‘Yes’.”

“I am not a theoretician of the cinema. If you ask me what directing is, the first answer that comes into my head is: I don't know.”

“What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is raised, "What kind of God do you believe in?" my answer is easy: "I believe in a magnificent God.”

“One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.”

“My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not;
I think thy answers make me what I am.”

“Here is an amazement –– once I was twenty years old and in
every motion of my body there was a delicious ease,
and in every motion of the green earth there was
a hint of paradise,
and now I am sixty years old, and it is the same.”