"In the domain of art there is..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.”

“No one can keep a secret better than a child.”

“If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.”

“The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.”

“I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.”

“One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”

“I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.”

“If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.”

“Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.”