In North America someone who doesn't know anybody, he can go... you can be respected for your own identity. It pushes your personality to become stronger.

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.

Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words - these alone are without effect.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents, are booming.

Those who enter into marriage, must be fully prepared to establish their marriage, as the first priority in their lives.

Unlike a mere deception or a simple secret, which gives the impression that something's been taken away, a great magician makes you feel like something's been given to you.

I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing with it.

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.