Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

I just don't understand why those who fail to listen to others possess a habitual desire to be listened to.

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.

Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".

When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves.

The Tories seem unable to make any impact north of the border.

I like to stay in the rhythm of things.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

I feel bad for these preachers man, they're on their jets doing all of that stuff because there's a lot of people living hell on earth.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.