Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.

There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.