In general I'm more attached to a cinema that tries not to replicate the real world and life.

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.

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.

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

Before your greatest victories, you will always fight your greatest battles. Stay in the Fight.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and should be treated as such. Stay loose.

I think if you expect it to do well, you come off a little bit cocky.

That thing in you that you think is a demon is actually a bodyguard that's run amok

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.