The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

I've noticed you only speak ghetto half of the time." - Stephanie"I'm multi-lingual, " Rancher said.I followed him to the door, feeling jealous, wishing I knew a second language.

I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold.

Fear is energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, runs, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, HEALS.

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.