Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.

Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life. If Bill Gates had got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft?

I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly.

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

God saves, not God empathizes, cares, listens, helps, assists, or applauds.

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