Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.

I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.