I love Apocalypse Now because it's a war movie, but yet it's not really a movie about war.

I love Taxi Driver. When I saw it the first time, I didn't understand it, but I loved it because I thought the guy was really cool when he's talking to himself in the mirror.

The movie [Chicken with Plums] is very delicate, and you need to have people around you that understand what you're doing, otherwise it doesn't work.

There are always different things that can happen and I Marjane Satrapi don't want to yell at other people. It's easier if we yell at each other. We're still friends, so obviously it worked out.

We [with Marjane Satrapi] both have very strong personalities, but that's completely normal, because even if you're very well prepared, you never know when you shoot live action.

We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.

In my darkness time, God splendour light shines my path.

I get a kick out of cursing people for life on Sundays.

Let go of the attachment, keep the lesson

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.