Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.

Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.

It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.

Little details have special talents in creating big problems!

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.