I felt attacked because people rejected me. They didn't say "we can give you money to do something else if you want," they just said "no, this movie cannot be done" and I said "okay, so I'll do it!"

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.

I think there can be incestuous love.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground.

Love is the greatest nourishment of the soul. To be loved creates a strong back bone, joy, peace and soundness.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

There was a man once who said that mothers carry the key of our souls with them all our lives. But you threw mine away

Promptly report your action to the one who requested it.

Coffee takes on an almost ritualistic meaning. I learned that from being on hurricane patrol for a year in the North Atlantic.

I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.

Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.

It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.

If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?