I was the world in which I walked.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

You have to know who to keep near you and those you should be far away from.

The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.

If you took everything I’d ever found hot in a girl and piled them into a corner, you’d get Cricket Hunt standing in a corner.

There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people.

I'm on every worst-dressed list imaginable.

A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.