Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

There is no moon. The stars have risen and fallen and given way to a new spread, to the smeared heart of our Milky Way.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

To be put simply refugees are us. And their mothers are like us, they love their children the same, they laugh, they dream, and they are survivors, they are amazing.

There's only one possibility: win, draw or loose.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

Giving is the highest level of living.

I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing.

Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.

Suffering is an extraordinary teacher.

Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these our lambs from the fangs of the wolf.