Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

The home is the most ritualized place in a society

Happiness walks on busy feet.

I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.

She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

Money is only congealed snow.

Evil perpetually tends to disappear.

If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go.

Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat her. That would be awesome.

The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that.

But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.