For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

Nature is woman's best friend, ' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.

Blame is a choice that doesn't give you directions out of hell.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

Believe in your dreams even when they seem lost.

Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.

Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.

When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.

Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.