Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.

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.

Isabelle!" he called again. "Let down your raven hair!'"Oh my God, " Clary muttered. "There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn't there? I'm going to kill him.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?

A bottle of wine was good company.

churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.

The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition—as making a spark requires two things struck together.

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

Eight years after Reagan's nomination for president, the conservative movement is directionless