A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

I promised to touch your soul. I never said it would be painless.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.

You can follow the religions where God is small, or you can follow the religions where God is all.

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

Falling on your face, at the very least, is a forward movement.

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.