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.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

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

We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

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.

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.