I hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really bad.

I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.

I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little.

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.

For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.

I never deny a true experience in one shot.

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

What you persistently think becomes your reality.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.-Thomas Jefferson

In the land of the seeing, blind Lady Justice is Queen.

Is his work vengeance? Or Justice? There is the finest line between the two and when i try to focus on it, it becomes less and less clear.

Sometimes things don't work out and the reason has nothing to do with you, or how good you are.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change.

I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper.

It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.