I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

How can you be the best at what you do, when you don't even know what your strengths and weaknesses are?

To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.

Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too.

Her hair was strawberry blond, and she had the shape of a popsicle stick: turn her sideways and she practically disappeared.

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

People who call me the Twilight girl and mean it. Please, pigeon hole me. That means I did it right.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

The egg, you see, is a very sexy thing. Egg is like birth. Eggshell is sexy. Egg yolk is definitely sexy. Oh, I love egg.

The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence.

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts