I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

Most of us will do anything to avoid facing ourselves

Taking advantage of me in my sleep, archangel?” --Gin

A million possible endearments ran through his head. But he said, “Help.

We can't be searching for the meaning of life, at each moment of our life! We need to go out there and live each moment!

Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.

Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist.

Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.