I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.

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.

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

I don't really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.

It is true that a competitive market is not the whole of society. A great deal depends on the qualities of the population and the nation in how they organize the non-market aspects of society.

If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin Then mister you’re a better man than I

If you're meeting with the dharma, you have probably been a human being before.