The happy ending is our national belief.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that - how to express this - you really must make the self.

If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.

...the tourist Venice is Venice.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.