My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.

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.

Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.

All that I desire in life are three...A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea, A puff of opium, And thee.

To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.

I'd make banks more accountable. I think they should separate totally the personal banking arm with whatever else they are playing around with.

Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

That's a headache waiting to happen.

Being famous is wicked but its cool to be normal as well.

I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.