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

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

What keeps me going is my children.

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

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

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.