To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
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.
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
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.
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?
It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.
I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.
All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
My aim in life is not to judge.
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?
If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
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.
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.
It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
Living is risking.
