I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

Money is not as good as power, but power is as good as money.

Markings in dry clay disappearOnly when the clay is soft again.Scars upon the self disappearOnly when one becomes soft within.

The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools.

Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

Rap and dance is pretty much what I want to be known for.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property up after they have gained it in some other way.

It's important to realize that innovation and growth in itself are not sufficient to moderate inequality of wealth.