"The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period."

"Physical courage is a great test."

"It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man."

"The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette."

"Christmas makes everything twice as sad."

"If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief."

"I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it."

"Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."