The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.

(When asked what a director does) I help.

Love is large, and so forms the heart that embraces it fully.

It is the common peoples duty to police the police.

The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.

Be yourself around a world of clones.

I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis.

I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.

You get one life. Live it in a way that it inspires someone.

Theres a fine line between playing a dim-witted character and playing a cartoon.

I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.