I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

I am a wanderer passionately in love with life.

All the horror is in just this -- that there is no horror. . . .

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

Most saints live to regret their career choice.

The normal make a living. The deranged make history.

Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.

I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.

I jokingly call this convergence of games into reality the "Gamepocalypse": the moment when every moment of life is actually a game.

There's a script, then you're going to shoot the script and then you cut that and then that's the end of the film. And that's never really been how I've seen it.

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all its earthly goods. Which cross have you taken up? Pause and consider.

I'm terrified by young people who are doing what they think is film making. What they're really doing is taking that convulsed, fast rhythm of commercials. It's not film making.

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.