It's very important to set your place in a concrete environment. I think Chekhov said that the important thing when you have a play or any kind of novel is to set the roots in a concrete place.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

Happy endings make me puke.

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

To die trying is the proudest humans thing.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

I'm against reparations. At this point, blacks should just be handing money to themselves.

No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.

Interpreting at its core is taking in one language and putting out the other.

When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.