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

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.

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 wheels of history are lubricated with human blood.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Personal growth by tackling the ‘big-picture” through focusing on the things you have power to influence is more effective and less stressful.

You hurt me. It’s OK. I just want you to be happy.

You can't spell impossible without spelling possible!

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

It's funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually inclined. All that sexual energy is kundalini.

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.