Somehow the thought she might be next wasn't nearly as terrifying as the realization he was gone.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.

Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

We have to continue to grow within and outwardly. We have to keep going.

Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.