It makes me laugh when you bring two things together which have nothing to do with one another.

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.

People are my religion/Because I believe in them.

I hate dates. I sit at home all day, and I don't fart once. I go on a date and I've got twenty in the bank straight away.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow.

We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.

We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it just became too much.

I'm not for the parties. I'm for Texas.

The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.

I was always insecure about the way I looked.

you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be