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

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

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.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

In the guise of frankness many people ruin their world by saying unpleasant things to friends and family. The bad words make them a bad world.

Being brave is about the everyday points of bravery that when taken together and viewed from a collective perspective make for an extraordinary life of love.

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.

I like feeling like I'm discovering something new. That's really a special feeling and also, you don't have it that often. At least, I don't. Maybe I'm not creative enough.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw.