The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

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.

When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.

What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

You can never be too sexy for mainstream television.

The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.

Dignity is more important than wealth.

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.

The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.

Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.