All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!

The strength of love is beyond measure.

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss

Fear is an emotion you control, not the other way around. We control fear when we let it go.

I just want to keep working, really. I just want to keep acting. Playing one part for a very long time builds up in you a desire to play as many different things as you can.

Things don't go away. They become you.

Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

I've quit drugs and drinking and been into healthy stuff like yoga.