Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.

To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process.

Best seller material, and she didn’t have to write a single word.

She couldn’t actually think of a time when Colton Brooks hadn’t owned a little piece of her heart.

Cathedrals Luxury liners laden with souls Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

A caress is better than a career.

It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

Gisele Bundchen, along w Kate Moss, is a phenomenon. I wish models knew they have to have a personality

The minute we look, we cease being afraid.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.