After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.

Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.

I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.

We always want to be going forward. It's scary to go back.

If you have love, you have all

It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on

Without questions, there is no learning.