The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.