I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.

Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

Orange is an underrated color, it's the second most underrated color after yellow.

Of course, from time to time, I want to do everything myself and be more involved on my own with the creative process. But I don't mind the collaboration at all.

In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real.

I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.

I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I'm confused about.

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

Humans in this world live based on two things: one is on the basis of the Self and the other is on the basis of the egoism.

You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.

Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

Even Spartacus needs a coach.

I have the sense that if I push too hard or too far into memory I’ll come apart.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

Humility may bring you humiliation here on earth, but surely not in heaven.

You give your film away to the audience once it's done. I never look at my films after the premier. The film needs to start its own history.

This would be so much easier if they actually issued black hoods.