You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago . . . had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

You know what circumcision is, Private?

You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem.

I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.

If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

My personal style has seen so many highs and lows. Probably more lows than highs.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.