No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

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.

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.

Never leave the egg in you not laid. Don't leave the laid eggs there not hatched. You deserve the best

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.

I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.

I can access emotions very easily.

I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

My soul has gained the freedom of the night

Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.

When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

If I could choose, I would say [I would like to be filming with] Natalie Portman and Leonardo DiCaprio.