I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

Justice will prevail!

Focus on joy, not on hurt or fear.The earth will dance, peace to share.

a young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow

When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose.

The American people are ready for solutions, and Donald Trump offers a chance to move in a new direction.

Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.