The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.

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.

The knowledge of course and effect is superior to miracles.

The only competition that matters the most in life, is the one between you and your old self.

All films are born free and equal.

I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.

What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.

I surround myself with love and look forward to being in love.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself