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.

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.

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.

Shatter your pride in dust to vanish into the joy of longing and love.

He's exasperated. "I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.

A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.

I’ve never really socialized, I’ve always been anti-social and preferred to be at home. I was never, even my late teens and early twenties, into clubs and parties and stuff like that.

Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning.

The German birthrate is below replacement levels, meaning the population is shrinking, meaning fewer and fewer people of age to join the labor force.

Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world.