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

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.

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.

You will not be able to effectively utilize your inherited wealth if you do not work diligently

I'm Crusty, " he said, with a tartar-yellow smile.I resisted the urge to say, Yes, you are.

...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

Death is the great transition.

You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.

When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.

I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo artist with my actual name.

There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.

You have to give it to the Packers. They are a good team. They have a great offense and a great defense.