I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

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.

When your focus on earth is only on material things and earthly blessings you will never be satisfied.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

Am I now ready to make some changes.

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.

When your friends have done right by you, you do right by them.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

So,would you say I’m closer to a zombie or a vampire? I gotta know—are my parts going to rot and fall off, or am I forever frozen in youthful perfection?

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go.