The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil.

I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.

Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.

Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams.

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

The revolution is now just a sentiment.

Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.

Give life no quarter…pursue it with passion and purpose

A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Whither should we aim if not towards God?

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

I still want to do a comedy series.

Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.

The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.

I'm a huge fan of [Elijah Wood] work and a huge fan of him, as a person. What's great about getting to know him is that he's just a really lovely, regular guy.