We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our lives..

I had changed, and gone on changing, but I did not fully remember how it had begun, or understand why.

We make our own destiny.

I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...

The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things.

I felt dead and sick inside.

Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...

Beauty is always found in the profound and deepest actions of a person who does things from the heart not from the shallowness of materialism.

As long as it makes you happy. For the rest of my life, I will do whatever it takes to ensure it. As my wife, you will not want for anything. What you desire, I will provide.

...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

My mind reels with sarcastic replies!

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.

External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?

God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.