America in some ways is much more of a democracy then France. It is and it's not.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.

I think there can be incestuous love.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.", July 5, 1922]

Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I’d be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.

I want to tell them that almost dying is awfully easy. Its the living that's hard.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

Take heed lest you stumble.

It is beautiful to be what you are.

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

I cringe every time I see no evidence of push-back by the Republican Party on Obama policies.