Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.

To be naked is to be oneself.

Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.

All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.