For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.

I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.

I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little.

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.

I never deny a true experience in one shot.

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.

Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have learned is useless in this new adventure.

The greatest sin you could commit is immortality, because it means that you’ll eventually commit all else.

Every man in the world is better than some one else. And not as good as some one else.

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

I use very few muscles at the best of times.

It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all.

It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information.

I would say that I think the film [I am love] is absolutely about nature, it recommends human nature. You don't need to recommend change, that's inevitable, it's the only reliable thing we have.