Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

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.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

I'd love to do my own music for sure. I'd love to have a band.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next virtue is doing it.

I've learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they're signing the checks. Whoever signs your paycheck is the boss - no matter what they tell you.

Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.

There are still men who come up to me today and say, 'You were really hot in that film!' I was 14, for God's sake!

With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.

The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.