Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

...language is never innocent.

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

Survivors and prevailers are those who love themselves above failure and everything else except the abstract and mysterious.

YOU CAN LEARN FROM THE FAILURES OF OTHERS AND YOU YOU CAN LEARN SUCCESSES OF OTHERS.

When I was a chain smoker, I used to wake up and the first thing I'd do was reach for a cigarette, basically. And now I do the same thing for a smartphone, basically.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

Education is an asset no man can take away.

If Oprah, Steven Spielberg and Bono had a baby, I would be that baby.

To play the drums, you have to spread your legs and use your arms. It's a very physical instrument to play. It's not feminine.

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen.

3D is not a fire and forget tool. It takes a lot of very careful consideration and it will change your approach to where you put the camera so 3D isn't for everybody.