In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

my parents Oedipal fakers

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.

I love trying to play the not-confident guy, the guy against my normal character, because that's when real acting comes into play.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

Those who don't move don't notice their chains.