There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

Life is just a dream, to some it's a sweet dream, to others, a nightmare. But whatever it is, it's always short and dissipates quickly.

I have woken up…quite sloshedfrom night-mingled rainsa little drugged, by mountain fogsI have been kidnappedfor years....by a mere kiss.

Sometimes you have to erase the messages, delete the numbers, and move on. You don't have to forget who that person was to you, but you do have to accept that they aren't that person anymore.

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.

Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.

My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.

I don't think it's a question of whether you eat meat. It's a question of what kind of meat, and where it comes from.

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.