Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

It's difficult to cope with the infinite variety of the past, and so we apply filters and settle on a few famous names.

The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people.

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

I believe I can do things people think are impossible.

Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.

I am no bird and no net ensnares me

We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.

Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.

It came time to go to college. My dad said, go wherever you want. Take whatever you want. He just really believed in getting out and being exposed to different things.

I never thought I would be one of those wacky chicks who say, 'I loved my labor,' but I loved every part of it. It was the best day of my life.