All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.