The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

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.

Never stand on one spot, always be doing something in line with your calling

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

All can I say is that exams are damn pathetic

You have the freedom, ability and authority to love your life. Just be you, then wait.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.

If you are not with me, you are against me. I have no mercy for my enemies.

I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion. I, of course, never achieve this, but I always act as if I can.

Life is the elimination of what is dead.