Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.

Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an instrument it's inevitably inadequate, but it's the only one.

The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.-Kenshin to Eiji

There was a little girlWho had a little curlRight in the middle of her forehead.When she was good, she was very, very good.And when she was “bad”, Her Papa loved her anyway.

Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.

With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured.

All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.

Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either going to college, shifting towns.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.