For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

My ideal journey: set out early and never arrive.