This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.

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.

Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.

I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils.

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

When you have no real power, go public - really public. The public is where the real power is.

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.

Everyone can commit to 20 minutes, especially if there's a glass of Chardonnay afterwards.

Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

Whenever you're confronted with a tough work situation, stop for a second and try to honestly answer this question: Am I approaching this emotionally or am I approaching this professionally?

The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours, Even in the moment that we call them ours.