Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.

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.

Falling in love is like leaping from a cliff. Your brain screams that it’s not a good idea and that hurt and pain will inevitably come to you. But yourheart believes you can soar, glide and fly.

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

Here sir, the people govern.

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.

The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.