I think that wars will never stop, it's just that there are sides. You have to choose your side. And there are more progressive sides.

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 only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

[T]hese tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans are also the tax cuts that are least likely to promote growth.

I love breakfast, so I'd probably spend a long time on that. And breakfast food matters so I'd make sure it is the best food - great fruit and such.

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Life is about the moments: Don't wait for them, create them!