Life has more imagination than we do.

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.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

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.

I prefer for 'my world' to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.

I am doing what is right and from my heart against all odds.

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character

My maturity level is rising. I think there are certain situations that I'm handling better than in the past.

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.

I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.