It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.