Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

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.

Education is the seed of thought. If the mind is fertile, it will grow better crops.

He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.

It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring.

Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.

Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.