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 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 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.

Like an energy even an opportunity cannot be destroyed, if you don't accept, it goes to someone else.

No one can command over the images of your mind but an Author can and if you won't believe on me then read my book.

People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it.

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.

Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

Hope is not a dream but a way of bringing things into reality.

To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it.

I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

Marketing is everything and everything is marketing.