The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.

Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.

To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it.

The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.

You always go by your gut. That's the best you can do. You go by what you feel, and you say yes or no based on what it inspires in you.

One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.

"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

Madonna has a very unique style and comes up constantly with these great songs.

I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.

Famous-ness is awesomeness but some parts of famous-ness can be hard.