I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.

I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

It's not about celebrity or not. It's all about, do you have that 'girl in a cardigan' in you. You gotta have that.

Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.

All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

There are no plans in President-elect [Donald] Trump's policies moving forward to touch Medicare and Social Security.