The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

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.

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.

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

Staying indoors daily will eventually make you sick.

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment.

You can't think of nothing.

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes men free.

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

I remember going to Europe and one makeup artist made me look pink, then she tried to correct it but turned me green! I had to learn how to do my own makeup.

France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.