I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

Happy endings make me puke.

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

Know God and let Him be known. You were saved by grace for greater works apportioned for you even before you were born. Share the good news.

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

Everybody's got a hungry heart.

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.

Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.

The end of art is peace.

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.

If I cooperate with you, and you cooperate with me, I will keep cooperating with you.