Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

要是命运将会使我成为君王，那么也许命运会替我加上王冠，用不着我自己费力。