I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.

There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle... Perhaps...

The courage to continue before the face of despair is the recognition in those eyes of darkness we find our own night vision. Women blessed with death-eyes are fearless.

Just because you're in the market for a minivan doesn't mean you can't test drive a hotrod.

I am a thing of beauty.

Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.

Having a partner definitely allows you to take more risks.

After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.

I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.

but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.

The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.