I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

Society is better off with me in a gym.

An old man with overalls walked by

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

I'm not good at watching stuff that I'm in at all. I should stop. I shouldn't watch something for the first time with a room full of people at Sundance. It's not a good idea.

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

The more you touch something, the stronger it becomes.

Most important to me is my home life and the well-being of my children.

I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.

I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.