I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

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.

....but talking to a ghost about a demon when you’re in a room full of people who can’t see either of them is not to be recommended.

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

Next to the virtue, the fun in this world is what we can least spare.

Packing is chiefly planning -- if it is

It's the same reason why someone has a Web page or why people feel comfortable going on reality TV.

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.

Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.

I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.