We are all mediators, translators.

I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going.

If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.

Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

If things were simple, word would have gotten around.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.

I want to be able to speak to as many people as I can in my life and share this with the world!

Pray. Not just with your words, but with your actions.

When I'm curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I've really explored it, I'm OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.

We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.

Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

I don't care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so seriously.