Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.

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.

If you don't think it.You'll never do it!

Scarcity mentality measures out life by the ounce

this is the best year ever because i am reading the chronicles of vladimir tod

If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

Words are living things. They have personality, point of view... agenda.

You don't need a reason to be nice to someone.

We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.

Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream. To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom."