Heinrich Heine

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.