To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".

Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.

I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.

Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.

The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

...language is never innocent.

Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?

What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.

To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...?

I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.

I have always been a good mimic.

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge.

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.

Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.