My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

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.

... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.

Politicians are played by what they say and they don't do

When there is no vision people perish.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me.

I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

I want to privilege the moment.

There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man.

Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of this universe.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.