I love Taxi Driver. When I saw it the first time, I didn't understand it, but I loved it because I thought the guy was really cool when he's talking to himself in the mirror.

The movie [Chicken with Plums] is very delicate, and you need to have people around you that understand what you're doing, otherwise it doesn't work.

I love Apocalypse Now because it's a war movie, but yet it's not really a movie about war.

There are always different things that can happen and I Marjane Satrapi don't want to yell at other people. It's easier if we yell at each other. We're still friends, so obviously it worked out.

We [with Marjane Satrapi] both have very strong personalities, but that's completely normal, because even if you're very well prepared, you never know when you shoot live action.

We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.

Those who criticize the innovative concept of multi-site churches must also remember that at one point stained glass and hymnals were new as well.

I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do. Just be bold, be brave enough to be your true self. In short, be yourself, but always your better self.

One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

It is impossible to outplay an opponent you can't outthink.

The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.

I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household.

People are so opinionated about things, and they don't even know what they're talking about, or can't even do it themselves.

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.