Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.

The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind.

Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

Love! The poor word. How it has suffered up and down the streets of the world.

These are my shoes that I designed from top to the very sole to the very top to the bottom. Laces.