“There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.”

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”

“Though beauty is autonomous, there seem to be occasions when human presence can become congruent with her will. In creative work no amount of force or mechanical management can guarantee beauty. Suddenly, without expecting it, beauty is there. Yet ultimately beauty is a profound illumination of presence, a stirring of the invisible in visible form and in order to receive this we need to cultivate a new style of approaching the world.”

“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”

“People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.”

“I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.”