All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Do you have any idea how badly I want to pick you up and carry you into my bedroom and make love to you?

I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

It's true in most movies I don't use my own voice.

I always loved the style of Jean Seberg, Jane Birkin and Marilyn Monroe.

Life is but a collection of habits.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.