The way we have done pictures has to be disappeared.

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.

too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.

Every daring adventure opens a new magnificent frontier.

It was lonely to be so perfect in all respects.

To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I’d never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people.

The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.

If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the reason why I was able to swim so well

I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.