I won't be able to do a film just for bad reasons, for money or for - I just can't. If I have one more where I feel I can bring you something, I will do it.

Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film.

I'm always attracted by people who are lost in their time. I think it helps us.

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

I wanted to do something that was entertaining - but with a catch.

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

Sometimes I see people finish a film and they go, "Yeah, that was good. Where are we going to eat?"

It's called evolution. You must know that. Yes, we are.'She looked up from her book.'I would hope, though, ' she went on, 'that we also have some rather more beautiful ancestors. Don't you?' --Mina

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

If you're a Christian and you're running for president and you want to make this into a theocracy, I'm not going to support you.

I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.

I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.