The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Surprisingly, the Christian faith today is perceived as disconnected from the supernatural world – a dimension that the vast majority of outsiders believe can be accessed and influenced.

Where a mediocre mind finds adversity, a great mind finds great opportunity.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer.

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

Be collaborative. I've had some of my best experiences with directors who were able to sit down and have a conversation and ask me what I thought.

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

I don't want people to say I'm a solid quarterback. I want to be the best, and I'll continually work until I get there.

Intelligence guided by the will using memory and imagination assisted by intuition.

You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.