If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.

I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but we have to admit that we simply don't know for sure.

Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.

One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.

Those who would circumcise, implicitly suggest that they know better than nature, God, or whatever power created us and our world.