I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

I brought the film like a flower to the world.

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.

A woman is subject matter enough.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.

Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.

I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

Films with a message just make me laugh.

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

Some colors are very difficult to render and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

I remember an article, I can’t recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.

I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

Repeating, trying to repeat success - it never gets easier.

Concert dance is the hardest kind of dance. We tour constantly, around the world, year in and year out. It just doesn't work for everybody. It's the lifestyle, it's the stamina, it's the love, it's the dedication, it's the commitment, it's all those words.

I'm only responsible for what I say, not for what you understand.

Being in all of my relationships, I'm even more confused than I've ever been, I don't know if you ever really understand relationships.

We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will.

I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

We may be very busy we may be very efficient but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

I think 'Breaking Bad' is brilliant. Good drama in the U.S. is also so funny and blurs the line between light and dark.

I never thought I was gonna live to 30.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.