It's not that I dislike the police, but I would never go to the police for anything. It's just that I prefer not..., not calling them.

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.

The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.

Respect earned through fear instead of deeds, was not truly respect.

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.

I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

The king is a strong piece - use it !

I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.