Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.

If I had a camera, ' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.

The living sinners on deadly ground.

Once again, we come to the holiday season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He remains a pleasure-seeking animal.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.

Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.