Quotes

I've been enthralled by deep vistas of space and time ever since watching George Pal's film of 'The Time Machine,' while an early encounter with Arthur C. Clarke's 'The City And The Stars' cemented my love for books with a scope spanning millions of years.

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

One woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her. Another told me she wore Lanvin to face her husband's lawyer because she felt protected. If I can make men fall in love with women and if I can protect women, I think I can die peacefully.

If I wasn't a designer, I would love to be a doctor. That is my fantasy, my dream. A doctor will give you a tablet if you have a headache, and I will give you a dress, and we both make you feel good.

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

I used to hate L.A., but I met such a great group of people there that I fell in love with it.

I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.

I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.

All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.

I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

If people don't love what you're doing, that doesn't mean you're wrong.

There are a few giant companies that I love, and I love Amazon. Their customer service is impeccable: sometimes, just for the hell of it, I'll sleep on a mattress for three years and return it.

In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative; I loved the writing. I loved the making of it. Because, I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one.

I don't see many explosions or ten-car crashes in the course of my life, so I don't put them into my movies. I would love to live in a society where 'My Dinner with Andre' made $100,000,000. Then I would be in the mainstream. I could do that stuff easier than I could do 'Meatballs.'

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.