Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things as revenge. To show that I could.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

Happy endings make me puke.

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

You can keep waiting for somebody else to define you, or give you your place in the world, or you can decide that you're not just somebody's broken puppet anymore. Choose.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

If the Devil can’t make us really bad, then he’ll try to make us really busy.

Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

A young wine is like a horse, it is extremely vibrant. It needs taming. It has lots of life, the edges need bevelling and we need to reduce the tannins.

Don't idolize anyone if you can. You know, be inspired by people, certainly, but don't idolize people... Because they'll let you down.

Talent is what drives this world ... Doesn’t matter how many satellites you f---ing stick in the air.

My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.