I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.

When someone hurts you over and over, ask yourself, WHY DO YOU LET THEM?

Marriages are made in Heaven.

When our identity comes from the self, then we keep our energy to ourselves. We feel energetic, we feel powerful, and we experience youthful vigor.

I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.

I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.

All complaining comes from pride.

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me.