I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.

Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will be charred: she will die an agonizing death. Never again will you have such a perfect model for the screen. Do not fail to watch as her snow-white flesh erupts in flames. See and remember her long black hair dancing in a whirl of sparks!

I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.

I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.

No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where not endowed with th five cardinal virtues of Confucius-benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and fidelity

A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.

..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.