I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.

I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

I hate seeing people getting hurt or hurting other people. I hate seeing blood. I am very intolerant of physical pain. I find violence horrifying, so much so that I can't help being intrigued by it.

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.

My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.

The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience.

By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.

To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.

The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.

The more you love, the more you crave.

Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn’t working

You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.