I think in life, people know what they want. They want to survive, they want to have a family. They want to procreate because it's in the genetic law.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.

I think there can be incestuous love.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

Tender Ember...Barred and brandedto be forever unlovedI was a tender emberseeking solace from above...

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when.

I used to not back down from a challenge.

Come and sip from the cup of destruction.

I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.

Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

Only those in comfortable circumstances think love is the most important thing.