The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau’s famous words - ‘a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time’.

I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.

How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!

And I, a twister, love, what I abhor.

Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times

Personal commitment to the principles of the kingdom must take pre-eminence

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

I'm not religious, and I feel that has to do with me being uprooted so many times in my life that I've explored many religions and sentiments from many different families basically across the globe.

As an actor, I'll play anything.

I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.

It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as to who can do the most acts of random kindness.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

God created the world and then created the devil, to blame for his mistakes.