Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Retail selling benefits from aggressive publicity.

We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.

The greatest power in the world is choice.

Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.

What one person does, several people usually consider.

People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting, because it's like you're going to the film's opening night at every festival.

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

When I am making a film, I know what to do in front of a camera. What frightens me are the scenes with dialogue. Sometime they really want me to speak perfectly and I don't like that.

Life's what you make it

...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.