Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Language is the archives of history.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?

Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.