Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Curiosity is a delicate little plant which, aside from stimulation, is mainly in need of freedom.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.