True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.

Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.