Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

History is the propaganda of the victors.

It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of millions of human beings in the world, and God knows how many millions of people long dead who have been lost to history, all of whom were probably special to someone.

Love delayed is lust augmented.

The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you’ve got is the dough.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.