Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

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

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.

[mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.

Lorraine once told me, smile big when you’re sad. Smile big when you’re happy. Smile big when you’re bored. Because regardless how you feel, your face could use a stretch.

But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.

I love people. I was born loving people.

One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.

It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a director, have to see the film as a whole. He must therefore collaborate selflessly, totally.

If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.

People put too much emphasis on looks.

I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.