Tokyo is like a huge futuristic pinball machine. It's like a bubble with two lost creatures inside a pinball machine that doesn't care about them. The other thing is, it's very colorful.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.

I think there can be incestuous love.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.

No man can stay for forever young, Unless he is a writer.

Are we always to be wantingwhat isn't:the greenest grassaccord and principlemotherhood and career?Yet our age lies to uslike an asp, whispering. "Both.

Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.

Walk out backwards if you must go, but please don't wave good-bye.

Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.

It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.