She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.Eric Packer about Vija Kinski

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?

What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.

Let them obey that know not how to rule.

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.

The man who forgives pays a tremendous price - the price of the evil he forgives.

When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

That transformation is to lose everything is an understatement so vast as to be without meaning. One has to lose everything, and one has to lose the one who has lost everything.