Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.

There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.

I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

If you want to know how to swim, you take lessons. If you want to walk on water, lessons won´t help you, just faith.

The entire Universe will conspire to satiate our desire of what we put out there... as long as that desire was created in the womb of compassion

I'm the only thing I'll ever hold against you.

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.

Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

I Play Dodgeball with Cannibals (Chapter 2)