Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.

We write from soul of the heart.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.

You don't like it that I am the one you need to keep the wolf from the door; that comes as no surprise. But I am the one you have. At some point we'll both have to risk telling the truth.

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle.

When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.