“Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.”

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.

Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Everybody has gone through something that has changed them in a way that they could never go back to the person they once were.

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

I guess some people never change. Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?

We’re only going to keep getting better. Let’s keep growing and changing the game.

The worse feeling is when someone makes you feel special, then suddenly leaves you hanging, and you have to act like you don’t care at all.