All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know?

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

People's opinions don't interfere with me.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

Age doesn’t protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.