I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.

I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little.

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.

For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.

I never deny a true experience in one shot.

Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.

Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have learned is useless in this new adventure.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

She watched the first episode and she was like, 'This is feminism?' And then by the end of the season, she was like, 'This is feminism.' The tone changed completely. She was really psyched about it.

Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time.

When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

It’s like someone who prays every night saying God’s a good listener. Just because you’re talking to us doesn’t mean we’re listening. With me and God, you never really know.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.