Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

No one is responsible for your inner peace and inner joy except for you.

and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness, like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now.

The crow when travelling abroad came back just as black.

Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man.

Who cares about everyone? What about me?

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.