[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that he directed the Resistance journal called Combat.

I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her, dedicated to 'you who will never be able to read this book'.

I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.

I think for an artist what is most important is to touch as many hearts as possible.

[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.

It's true that women appear very little in [Albert Camus] works. They have a very marginal place.

If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.

She crouched with her hand out. What the hell was she doing… "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty." Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim.

There are hundreds of reasons to be kind, but only one that matters—because it’s who you are.

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago, ' continued Marvin.Again the pause. 'Oh d—''And that was with a coffee machine.' He waited.

I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

Words are a form of personal expression. They differentiate us as well as fingerprints do. They reflect what kind of person we are.

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.

Never stop wanting for your magic

When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical.