“If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story”

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn”

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”

“I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.”

“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”

“If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.”

“I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.”

“If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!”

“There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women...”

“In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.”

“I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.”

“You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.”

“I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.”

“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone.”

“A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.”

“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.”

“Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.”

“I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.”

“Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.”

“I don't think any word can explain a man's life.”

“What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other”

“Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a man, but I register and receive with the soul of a woman. The only really good artists are feminine. I can't admit the existence of an artist whose dominant personality is masculine.”

“I much prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.”

“نأتي للعالم وحدنا، ونموت وحدنا، ونعيش وحدنا. الحب والصداقة هما أقرب شيئين يمكننا إيجادهما لصنع الوهم أننا لسنا وحدنا تماماً.”

“A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.”

“I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them;once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.”

“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”

“If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story”