Films with a message just make me laugh.

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

A woman is subject matter enough.

We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

It’s so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

Sometimes when you play music, you start thinking, "This is rocking!"

That which sufficeth is not little.

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

Without someone giving you a shot, opening a door, believing that your obsession is a real thing when you're young, you don't get the opportunity. Every single day I'm reminded of that.

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.