You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

A child who grows up too closely aligned with adults assumes knowledge of a life she hasn’t yet experienced.

Oh captain, my captain, bon voyage.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)

Do you realise that Eve was the only woman who ever took a man's side?

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

This planet has rejuvenated itself over and over again. Its species are just witnesses. [Earth] is going to reclaim itself once it tires of us. And all that will be left are the bones.

Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.

Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.