I had become with the approach of night once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness leaving her without support respect or professional counsel.

Everybody has something that chews them up and for me that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely even when you are.

Forget sex or politics or religion loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

In their heyday the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode New Order or The Cure but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.