I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.

The visionary is the only realist.

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

Nothing is more honest than a dream.

Never trust a woman who doesn’t like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.

It is a beautiful gift to be a creator.

But all the magic I have knownI've had to make myself.

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.

Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.

Love comes quietly... / but you know when it is there.

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.

Where there is a woman there is magic.

Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.

If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.