It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.