Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing and changing within time.

Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to genius, are scattered about the world like warning notices in a mine field.

God have pity on the smell of gasolinewhich finds its way like an armthrough a car window, more human than kerosene, more unctuous, more manly.

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating

The objective is to change the system and the behaviour it encourages, rather than replacing 'bad' people with 'good' people.

Marquez was not born in Colombia.He was born in Macondo, And his Macondo is his La Mancha.

Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.

The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ...What am I doing to shape the values of the society?

No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.

All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.

Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.