Athos was of the opinion that everyone should've had their free choice. He never gave advice without being asked again and one had to also ask him twice. Generally - he said- advice is only asked to not be followed, or, if it has been followed to have someone to reproach for having given bad advice.
Whoever doesn't choose means that is subject to the choices of the others.
You can't not choose.
The right way of doing things, the style, is not an useless concept. It's just the way of doing things the way they have to be done. The fact that, when the thing is done, is also nice, it's pure accidental.
They'll always criticize you, speak badly of you, it'll be hard to meet someone who will like you as you are, so live, do what your heart tells you to do... Life is like a play that does not allow testing. So sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely every day of your life, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.
Let's not think of them, but look and pass on.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
Be always like the sea, than breaking up against cliffs it finds always the force to try again.
And patience after all is a man's nearest approach to Nature's processes of creation.
I don't miss my own past. I miss the past overall: the sixties of Kerouak, the twenties in Paris of the Lost Generation, 1890 of Dead Man, 1904 of Barrie. I don't make movies to see a new place, but a different period.