Photography is truth.

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.

There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can’t stiffen up enough to create them.

Caring about a person is like praying to a doughnut in the darkness.

[It's] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97

Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help.

No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.

Let the story tell itself.

Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.