"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."

"I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another."

"I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul."

"A film is a petrified fountain of thought."

"For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration."

"A quiet mind is capable of understanding that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."

"Space is the breath of art."