Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

The wisest man is he who is kind to all, compassionate to many, and rude to none.

free fall to your quite smile to capture you and you propel me to death, all that we write destroys then heals

People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you.

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.

There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!

I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.

The worst evils are those that never arrive.

Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.