In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

Ive never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

History is more interesting than politics.

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)

He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

My theory on smear pieces is try and win 'em over.

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.

It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.