“The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes ...” — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quote

“The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.”

“War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.”

“Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.”

“I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.”

“Culture follows power.”

“What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?”