The artist must know how far to go too far.

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.

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.