To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

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.

"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.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

I'm very close with my family, so my mom is part of my entourage.

My friends know that I have a silly sense of humour and I can be a little vulgar at times - but just with people that I am close to.

The American people have elected their president and my vote doesn't count in the U.S.

Sometimes I think my soul is full of weeds!

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.

Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.

I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.