To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.

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.

Be courageous! Never fear to take a chance.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.

But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.

Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.

Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.