Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

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

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

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.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.