"(...) You'll have to learn to live in a very strange new world."

"The years shall run like rabbits,For in my arms I holdThe Flower of the Ages,And the first love of the world.'But all the clocks in the cityBegan to whirr and chime:You cannot conquer Time.
'In the burrows of the NightmareWhere Justice naked is,Time watches from the shadowAnd coughs when you would kiss.
'In headaches and in worryVaguely life leaks away,And Time will have his fancyTo-morrow or to-day."

‎"For me, the cinema is primarily a form. A film must have a form, otherwise it doesn't say anything. 'Form' is something visual, not intellectual. When I'm making a film I look a lot, and think very little. You think later, during the editing, not while you're shooting"

"I'm the hero of the story

Don't need to be saved

It's all right, it's all right, it's all right, it's all right

No one's got it all"

"não conseguiu firmar o nobre pacto

entre o cosmo sangrento e a alma pura

(...)

gladiador defunto, mas intacto

(tanta violência, mas tanta ternura)"

"But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously..."

"Nada de valor absoluto de uma imagem.

Imagens e sons só terão valor e força na utilização à qual você os destina."

se na literatura há "livro do desassossego", em cinema um paralelo equivalente com "notas sobre o cinematógrafo".

"Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it."

"(...) Tied to a night they never met

You know it's time
That we grow old and do some shit"

"(...) who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping (...)"

"You are no longer inaccessible, the limpid, the transparent one (...) You are waiting."

"Because now I am grown so old and neutral...."