I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

Happy endings make me puke.

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

I wish you much more grace for all your works.

Feel within, the pure and unconditional Love and embrace all.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

Don’t call me a loser in front of my mom!

I don't think about wealth. I get one thing in my mind, "How can I help people...come on humans...do something, you know. Let's wake up. Man alive...you're half dead. Let's do some living".

I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.