What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

I am the only real truth I know.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

Ones life will have much more meaning and happiness if one makes their own decisions

...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?

The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

[Adolf] Hitler didn't discuss politics or military with Eva [Braun]. Not once.

If you have a problem, try to get help, you can get through it if you get help.

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

Give me a scotch, I'm starving.

Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.