Is the cinema more important than life?

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there

Those who will have studied the past that can define the future will succeed as other who don't will have misled full of lies.

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

The Bible says we need to love our enemies, bless our enemies. It does not say we should assume our enemies' priorities.

A fool is very dangerous when in power.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

The truth is I don't regret it. It was the right decision [not run for president] for my family, and the right decision for me.

Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.