I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered.And that was only because he was laughing so hard.

She wasn't scared of going deep, deep down in a world of no air and little light

Sure, people can make you happy, but no one can stop you from being happy.

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

Know that you were made [the way you are] for a reason.