Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!

I think the reward of you is worth the risk.

Everyone was always becoming someone else.Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can aguy who’s about to turn seventeen feel old?

I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future.

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.

I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.

I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.