I hope I never get so old I get religious.

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.

Great mission lies ahead of us.

Love is like a rose. So beautiful to look at, yet so painful to touch.

Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail

My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether.

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

Love with life is heaven; and life, unloving, hell.

The key to happiness is achievable dreams.

It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day.

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.