Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.

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.

Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!

My only politics have been friendship.