To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.

Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

I like the idea of challenging Hollywood on its own turf. It's important to do that.

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

I don't want to see kids in America being scared because they're hearing people on television and the radio saying really ugly xenophobic and racist things.

You're re-accessing your natural energy, your natural information, your knowledge of yourself, of your sacred self.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

I've busted a million Europeans

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

Jared sidled up. He was not very good at sidling; he was more of a loomer.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.