Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.

The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

Judgement immobilizes, only hopeful love leaves an opening for God's alternative future.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

Without the hard we stay too soft, and heaven is reduced to myths like life. Theology aside, it’s plain to see that God forbids we get too comfortable.

A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.

Never call a man a fool; borrow from him

I just love the sheer mess of New York.

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.