It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.

Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

Forgiveness, compassion, and kindness are the fundamental ingredients of our beloved humanity.

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

Each man has his fancy.

The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big challenge.

When you see that you are not the body, that the body comprises only a small fraction of the aggregate of your awareness, then death is no fear, life is no fear, there is no fear.

Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.

I don't fear failure because if you don't fail, you would not know the secret of success.