In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

Your inner essence can innovate and inspire. Harness that dynamism and embrace the positive change you can create.

Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.

Things that are really offensive make me laugh because I like things that push the envelope, go out on a limb, and are bold.

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I?

But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.