In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.

I would love to stay alone when I'm creating.

I could feel the real interaction between directing and acting, when an actor or an actress really suggests very interesting things.

My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.

Look at the stars. See their beauty. And in that beauty, see yourself.

Don’t complain about difficult situations. They contain in them the motivation to succeed.

She is a smile in the dark

Before she could ponder what on earth he meant or come up with a proper response, he took their charade a step further.He kissed her.

No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.

You should try to get fired once in a while. It's good for you.

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

Work is the vessel into which we pour so much of ourselves hope and disappointment, elation and rage, satisfaction and frustration. Yet any damp display of these emotions is seen as weakness.

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.

When you find yourself ready to complain about what you don't have, stop for a moment to consider what incredible things you do have. And resolve to make the most of it all.