Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.

What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension.

I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.

The one foreign policy issue that Donald Trump took a stand on was that he was against the Iraq war. Even though it wasn't true, he kept saying again and again and again.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.

For Democrats, anything less than 15 net pickups will be a disappointing outcome [in presidency race].

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

You are the honoured guest, Do not weep like a beggar For pieces of the world.

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.