Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.

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.

Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdeter

Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

if we are wayfarers who want to return home, then we must see the world as a means of transportation (terestibus vel marinis vehiculis) and always remember to distinguish the means and ends.

The above proposition is occasionally useful.

You look good, you feel good. You feel good, you fight good.

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy.

I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.