I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film.

I'm always attracted by people who are lost in their time. I think it helps us.

I won't be able to do a film just for bad reasons, for money or for - I just can't. If I have one more where I feel I can bring you something, I will do it.

I wanted to do something that was entertaining - but with a catch.

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

Sometimes I see people finish a film and they go, "Yeah, that was good. Where are we going to eat?"

When you succeed in showing the real products that this disappearing life has produced, then you are said to be a winner.

Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child

I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

You cannot build God’s reputation if you aren’t willing to risk yours.

For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.

I believe that he who has less in life should have more in law.

I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.

Victory is the main object in war.

You learn lessons. A lot of them the hard way.

Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.