it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

I just think that sometimes it is less hard to wake up feeling lonely when you are alone than to wake up feeling lonely when you are with someone else. Some people would be better off alone, but they feel they've got to get hold of someone to prove they're worthwhile.

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

I realize that we've come to a different way of showing movies. But I'm still with the old ways, and I can't change.

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

I do not want to arrive at the end of life and then be asked what I made of it and have to answer: 'I acted.' I want to be able to say: 'I loved and I was mystified. It was a joy sometimes, and I knew grief. And I would like to do it all again.'

I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose.