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.

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.

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.

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

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time.

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read, ' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.

Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism.

Don't mourn, Organise

Life is easy greediness adds complexity

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.

First of all, she Hillary Clinton is going to raise taxes on the middle class. I actually think that's the only truthful thing she's said in about three weeks.

Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.