One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly. (friend who is a priest said regarding prayer)

The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the rottenest heart in all creation!

Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!

The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

No woman has an abortion for fun.

I never had a great role in a great film.

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

I tell my students, if you are going to spend days and months and years with someone, you had better like that person!

It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.