What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

I am completely opposed to the British National Party

...there are worse things than losing the girl.

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds population.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do

Taste is tiring like good company.

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.

You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.

I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.