If I'm speaking it means that in one way or another when I say, "I'm cold" it belongs to me: I'm cold. But just by saying this it becomes general.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.

He stood at the edge of town feeling very small, powerless. Night in the mountains could do that to you, reminding you of your place in the world and laughing at any sense of self-importance.

But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

You get older and more mature ... you just kind of go with the flow.

I did that thing where you scratch your eyebrow and flip someone off at the same time. I'm good at multitasking like that.

We can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.

I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.

If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.