Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

you are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic.

Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

All I have to concentrate on is my performing.

All art of the past must be destroyed.

I have known for some time that I can meet any man I want but that does not mean that I want to meet anyone. I certainly don't like being forced into situations.

When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words.