Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal.

History is the propaganda of the victors.

Love delayed is lust augmented.

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

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.