"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

An individual dies ... when instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being he cowers within and takes refuge there.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?

In my opinion, Jesus is God's attempt to reach man. But while I believe Jesus is the way to God, it makes no sense to hate people who disagree.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.

Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.