Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.

Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.

What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.

After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.

Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.

Yvan's a very tolerant bloke, which of course, when it comes to relationships, is the worst thing you can be. Yvan's very tolerant because he couldn't care less.

Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.

There wasn't anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies.

Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.

I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.