To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.

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.

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

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.

What else is there besides puran (input

The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.

Discipline yourself to be a disciple of great works and to do that excellently, you have to wave "bye-bye" to some things and then switch off your inner person not to go near them again!

For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.

The way that these girls keep themselves skinny is awful, isn't it? By vomiting or using hard drugs - which I can't afford.

Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.

It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

Water, we go to you dirty and rise from you clean.

I told Pat I want to be him for Halloween. I almost got hit and I told Pat I should stop teasing him.

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.