When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.

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.

The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.

But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?

I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.

The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.

The physical reality is assumed to be the wave function of the whole universe itself.

And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.

You managed to get him a duster, but you couldn't find me a pair of jeans?

My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.