The beauty of literature is that it allows us to live a thousand lives.

Every frame in a film should be a painting, every scene a story.

The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.

I go where I love and where I am loved.

The purpose of art is to make the soul visible.

我们大多数人都不是为了理解而听。我们是为了回应而听。