In Europe, the houses and the apartments are getting smaller. So there is no need to increase the screen because the apartment is becoming smaller.

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.

I guess it’s true: it’s difficult for men to understand women.

Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!

History is a record of human nature in action.

As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.

The world reflects back to you how much you value yourself.

The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong.

People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through and it really helps you out.

I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.

We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.