So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

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.

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

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.

So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).

I study theology in the works of creation and find in it new reasons for adoring the creator.

Your best day can always become a great day. Your attitude solely depends on this.

I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'

I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

People reside within qi and qi resides within people. From heaven and earth down to the ten thousand things, each one requires qi to live.

And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.

But on the other hand, I look back at my career sometimes and can't believe how fast everything has gone and how much I've been able to accomplish.

If I can look at a 6-year-old and learn from him, that's life. That's God for me, that's inspiring.

No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'