I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.

Life has a positive and negative side. Happy people ignore the negative side

Be a crazy beloved to find your crazy lover.

The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.

When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

I still got my Ferrari.

I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot.