Something that I like in movies, and I dislike too, is that they can't be projected well.

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.

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.

It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.

A running machine, that glides over mud, crud and goop.

We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.

I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion.

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.

Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.

[When asked how many husbands she had had:] My own, or other people's?