I know that sometimes in my own life I really felt like killing people.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.

I think there can be incestuous love.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

Don’t cluster too much plans to do within a relatively minimum time. As beginner, you must not cut your coat according to your elder brother’s size. Know your limit.

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

Give the people what they want and then go have a hamburger.

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all

The domination of one's spirit and mind is not a pretty thing, but I think it happens.

There is no magic in words.

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.