"The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs."

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”

Source : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.118, Crown

“Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.”

Source : "Martin's History of France : The Decline of the French Monarchy" by Henri Martin, Vol. II, (p. 418), 1866.

“In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.”

“Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.”

“Most visual artists, just like most writers, tend to be solitary. While they're doing the art, that is. They may have a crazy orgy that morning, but at a certain point they kick everybody out, and say: "Come, go home. Yeah, I had a great time too." And then you're alone again, and then you're freshly inspired and energized.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“The good thing about living like me is everywhere you go is a step up.”

“Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail.”

“I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.”

Source : "Leos Carax on “Tokyo”: “Cinema is my country but it is not my business” by Eric Hynes, www.indiewire.com. March 4, 2009.