Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.

The visionary is the only realist.

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

Nothing is more honest than a dream.

Never trust a woman who doesn’t like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.

Whenever something bad happens, keep calm, take a few deep breaths and shift the focus to something positive.

Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons

For me, once the film is out, it belongs to the audience, and I have to be open to any reaction that comes from it.

I don't read books, but I have friends who do.

Whether we think we can or cannot, we are right.

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift.

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.