If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as I did one good movie.

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.

Maybe I am everything I knew that I would never be. I looked back at Jay and smiled.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

Dignity is the only one thing I have chosen over rules and benefits of slavery. I am not perfect because I chose to be myself

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

We became the songs we wrote.

No pork, soda pop, cigarettes, alcohol – ever!

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.