We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

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

The cinema is death at work.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?