The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.

Without resistance you can do nothing

I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless.