If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture

She leaves a tiny part of her heart everywhere she travels and memories from the place fill up the void in her heart and soul.

Reality doesn't care about convenience or dramatic story progression.

If dual torment is to be my one condition, both of loving and being loved I would quit.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it

I used to dream of a week-long beach vacation with white sand under my toes... right now, I'd settle for 48 hours at a Motel 6 with some Lysol and a UV lamp.

You can’t have a bully without a victim.

Everything is falling into place.

I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police - the GOP.

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.