Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

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.

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.

If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.

Philanthropy is the rent we pay for the joy and privilege we have for our space on this earth.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.

If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.

The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.

We'll fight terror like there's no peace, and make peace like there's no terror.