I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.

Love will fan the flame, and that flame will warm the heart that's waiting.

Go for the purposes of God, and the means to fulfill them will follow.

I am a person who is not mated.

Calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear.