I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a court.

Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.

I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of making cinema and telling stories and watching the country.

My job is just to make the films and then I don't have any strategy.

In general I'm more attached to a cinema that tries not to replicate the real world and life.

I would not describe myself as a left-wing filmmaker. I don't think this is the first thing that would pop into my mind when talking about my work.

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

When we did 'Dynasty', it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!

First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her leadership through initiatives.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

When you're supported by people, you always imagine it's people your age who will support you.

You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.