In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

Empty the pond to get the fish.

The nudity of that feminine body had risen into her face, the body had reabsorbed it, as nature reabsorbs forsaken gardens.

In the nude, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.

Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness.

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

I'm an artist with a message, and my message is more for society, casting the mirror onto them and saying, 'Hey, this is what we look like, what are we going to do about it, how are we going to use what we've been through to aid where we're going.'

Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do not believe there were any really good doctors in the 10th century.

I am getting better at facing the bouncers, as I know opposition tries to use those as a weapon against me. Yet, no one is perfect, and he takes time to master a particular thing.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

The DJ still has the relationship with the people, I believe. I don't know to call the DJ 'the ambassadors' or what, but we still are connecting the dots, getting the good stuff and passing it on to the people. DJs still have relevance, even with the technology that elevates the DJ beyond being a selector.

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case.

Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.

There is nobody more terrible than the desperate.

For me, you can put on something by Bach, and I'll feel better.

Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.

I love people, but I don't do so well in a system. We're poor, and we lead a very different kind of life. We depend on other people so much.

It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement.

For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner.

I am not strong on perfection.