'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

To live with regret is to deny one's life of living.

What was the purpose of a woman monster?It came out in a whisper. ‘What am I for?

Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted

Never mistake arrogance for intellect.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

Blood is a very special juice.

I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and end.

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.