"Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion."

"I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie."

"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."

"I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me."

"Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions."

"I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write."

"If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness."