I think that in the American film industry - or even in the European cinema - movies are made not to disturb any kind of class or any kind of minority.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.

I think there can be incestuous love.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

The inner suffering of the evil you do to others is not fully understood until you are wearing their aches.

I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23.

Knowing what you can do at any given time to look and feel better is pretty powerful.

I love to shop, especially in retro stores. I have about a million pairs of old-school sports shoes like Adidas, so that's probably my biggest vice.

Most people haven't got a point of view; they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.

Death is not a disaster. Too many births - that is the real disaster.

Empathizing with someone's 'no' protects us from taking it personally.

My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.