Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.

Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

I like the idea of challenging Hollywood on its own turf. It's important to do that.

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

We humans are like squirrels who spend all summer gathering and hoarding nuts and when winter comes can't remember where they are.

We all desperately need brilliant sales professionals far more than ever before – to help us, guide us, keep us informed and stop us from making diabolically stupid buying decisions.

Achieving your heart’s desires is the key to living a life of bliss.

I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.

Please deal with the Radical Islamic Threat today.

So long as Donald Trump is powerful and popular, Fox News is going to achieve an advertising bonanza unheard of in the era of modern cable, because people will pay them to talk to the president.

In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

I'm a big fan of the Adidas three-stripe old-school zip-up tracksuit tops. I've got several for everyday wear, including an olive-green one, a burgundy one and a cream one with leather arms.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

Everybody says, "Well, if it's a democracy, let them have nuclear weapons." America is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons. We're the only ones, this democracy, our great democracy.