Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

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.

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

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.

Love is the most powerful force on earth. The end of fear is where love begins. Then nothing can overcome you.

Beware of those who are stingy, for they would rather sting you than give you anything.

Because any guilt the sizeof a speck of dust, or shame, can crush even the best of men, in mountains of weight

This is the story of how I "came down with cat, " even though I had decided I would never, ever, own any pet.

In the middle of difficulties lie opportunities.

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

I know I can be very standoffish . . .

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?

Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.