Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

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.

Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe.

I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.

I found I have to stay painting.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.

Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.

There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.