Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

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.

I don’t regret or fear my problems and roadblocks. They have made me brave and given me the opportunity to overcome them.

As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

If you had to hurt somebody or intimidate them or kill them, it would be morally justifiable.

I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

My philosophy of life is that I am deeply, deeply serious about my work and for the rest I like to have a few laughs.

You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself.

Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.

Now if you know what you're worth. Then go out and get what you're worth.