I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

I think décor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

A dead love never dies.

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

But Amy, " Elder says. "Space suits!

Political problems ruin meals. Let it be known as Eric’s Law of Lunch henceforth.

Don't let money change your direction

I see you, Khya. I've always seen you. And except for you tendency to pretend you hate me most days, I like what I see.

The beginning is half of every action.

I will live to piss in the open mouths or the open graves of my enemies, whichever comes first.

I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here. (277)

The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.

The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S.

I'm a mean beanbag tosser.