“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. ”

“When I felt I was dying, these past few days, things were no longer anthropomorphic. The telephone, which looks like a sort of upturned black snake, was merely a telephone. Every thing was just a t...”

“Im a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because Ive invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me...”

“No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.”

“If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.”

“An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. Its this in-between that Im calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible w...”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.”

“Women think in [Douglas] Sirks films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk the...”

“The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second”

“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”

“Dont cry and dont rage. Understand.”

“The only way to heal yourself was to understand. Understand the love or the hate or the cowardice, or the impulsiveness, the lack of will of the one who hurt you--the circumstances that twisted the...”