I allow my intuition to lead my path.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind.

The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time.

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.

It is always a nice feeling when you are challenged by a scene and you walk out of trailer and you go on set going I don't know. And then half an hour later you're walking back.

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

The stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yard! America's chickens are coming home to roost!

I just love New York, I love the people. The energy of the place. I really feel energized working here. I've always been made to feel very welcome, and it's a tremendous city.

The power of miracle is the power of imagination.

People like controversy because that's what sells.

The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.