I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

I have over 5000 costumes, and the furniture and memorabilia that goes with them.

The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.

Obstacles aren't there to stop you. They are put there to show you how powerful you can feel when you run right over them.

Love is the strongest medicine.

The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise.