There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.

Only the painter who knows his business can create the impression that a picture was done in one stroke.

I cannot read God's mind, however I can read God's Word.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

I want to go on tour with the most exciting artists, and I want to make sure that I have songs with all of them.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

I firmly believe every book was meant to be written.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

I only aim for fashion that's long dead.

On a movie, it's always better to stay invisible as much as you can to keep things calm. I like to whisper to my cameraman, I like to whisper to my actors, and whoever else I've gotten to whisper to.