Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

I don't like people much, and I like doctors even less.

Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

My subordinates followed my orders.

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

As an actor, being in a relationship you have this opportunity to have something really exceptional, because you don't have a regimented schedule or lifestyle.