If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

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.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour!

If You Don't Believe the Numbers and Believe in Your Spirit, then You're Ageless.

These are mad times, but there have been a lot of mad times in the world.

If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.