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.

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.

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.

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

No decision about me, without me.

As you're rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people's eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!

Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, "When are you gonna start running hard?" The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth - Man, I love to run!

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.

Obviously I am not happy but they can throw what they want at me, I will come back stronger.

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.