I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories.

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.

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

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

Life isn't sure, life is scary, It doesn't mean you stop living it.

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.

If you cannot worship the Lord in the midst of your responsibilitie s on Monday, it is not very likely that you were worshiping on Sunday!

There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

Don't do piracy. Piracy is a crime.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.

The fruit of the Spirit is not what we can make ourselves do for a moment, But what God makes us to be for a lifetime.