I would rather stop [making movies] too soon than too late.

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 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.

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.

For happy are the merciful for they shall, too, know mercy.

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

All men are ignorant, just in different fields.

Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.

Tell him to go to hell.

An adulterer will not commit adultery when he has full faith (in Allah), and a thief will not steal when he has full faith (in Allah).

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

Instead of trying to prove your opponent wrong, try to see in what sense he might be right.

I love going shopping.

I'm out here to bomb, period. That's what I started for. I didn't start writing to go to Paris, I didn't start writing to do canvases. I started writing to bomb... destroy all lines.