The last thing we ever learn about ourselves is our effect.

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

I let people off the hook too easily.

I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.

I think the best cure is to stop doing the thing that you think you should be doing and go and have a bit of fun in another medium, maybe other crazy things.

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

You just make the best movie you can and hope for the best, because you don't have any control over what happens with the movie, whether the movie is misinterpreted.

I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

We should seek at all times to purify ourselves and to lead such worthy lives that the Light of Christ emanates from us in all that we say and do.

It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.

Your self is sacred; be true to it.

The air smelled like a mélange of everyone's perfume and hair products, with a slight undertone of booze.

I'm kind of the funny guy that hopefully kind of wins your heart if I did my job.