My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.

I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.

I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

Maybe illusion and artifice—lies, even—are a necessary part of romance.

Your goal in life should be to produce concrete product

Healing from childhood abuse is not going mad, it is going sane.

I don't know, it's stupid being 20, " she said. "I'm just not ready. It feels weird. Like somebody's pushing me from behind.

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.

It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.

We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.

The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.