I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.