Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.
One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
No wife, no horse, no mustache
Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.
I don't need a guarantee if I have you.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.