To become immortal, and then to die.

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.

We should be unshakable and uncompromising while we stand for God’s truth

Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

I want you to be yourself, but not with other dudes.

Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.

If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.