I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

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.

Christ demands first place. There's no room on the throne of your heart for two gods.

what would you call this haircut?" arthur.

I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.

There is nothing outside the universe.

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.

I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation.

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

I value people with a conscience. It's like a beeper from God.

Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.

As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.