Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.

She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!

If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.

Everybody knows that orthopaedic science provides beautiful false noses for those who have lost their noses naturally or as the result of an operation.

You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!

You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.

Love yourself to love others.Be yourself to understand others. Be the light to show the way to others.Be peaceful to bring peace to the world.

Movies are like magic tricks.

Love is more cruel than lust.

Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.

I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

The first must that any director has is to not force his public.

In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.

I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.