"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."

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

"Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world."

"Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts."

"Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25."

"In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?"