Objectivity is very hard to achieve. It needs some research and patience. If you want to do something honest, you have to explore it a little longer.

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.

Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

Orange is an underrated color, it's the second most underrated color after yellow.

Of course, from time to time, I want to do everything myself and be more involved on my own with the creative process. But I don't mind the collaboration at all.

In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real.

I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.

I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I'm confused about.

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

Some people are like "the great wall of china", you can´t reach them.

A society that has destroyed freedom and beauty must itself be destroyed.

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

I always refer to [Stardust Memories] as Sharon Stone's and my first film.

thats why you cant be worried about the world. theyll just do you in anyway. you can't depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or just disapear and leave you there alone.

Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.

Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.