I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.

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.

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group

Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.

I'm sure she wants revenge. I'll just try not to let that happen.

I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in the platform.

I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the myths and legends in the books.

I fought a bear once. But it started crying, so I let it off.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.