One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

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.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Faith and beliefs are the common things in all religion, so God is the faith and the belief without exception.

Never marry who doesn't love you, If you do it, your ordeal will turn into hell.

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.

It's a really, really hard life when you don't have a document that actually gives you a name and a face.

Good luck, man." Wraith clapped him on the shoulder. "For an angel, you don't suck." "Ditto. For a demon....well, you do suck." "Because I'm half vampire?" "Sure," Reaver said. "Let's go with that.

Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.

The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.

Well I've had a happy life.