Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

It is OK to say 'no'.It is OK to say 'I will think about it'.It is OK to say 'I will try'.It is NOT OK to make promises you cannot keep.

Being a woman, in this world, ultimately makes you crazy.

My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.

Lo, I am the most stupendous in the land at my particular profession.

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

Jealousy is the fear of losing the thing you love most. It's very normal. Suspicion is the thing that's abnormal.

I'm reading a lot of scripts. It makes my career decisions in that sense much the same way I consume media.

I have sold my soul. I would sell my soul, if I could have it all.

As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.

I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get home.