I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
I shall die very young. . . maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.
Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.
To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be.
The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?
We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.
I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots. ' She was right.
That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.