In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

Money is a by-product of time. Money is the time that is well converted. Therefore, time is the raw material from which money is made.

You are mostly treated by others, the way you deserve.

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.

Children don’t need beating. They need love and encouragement. They need fathers to whom they can look with respect rather than fear. Above all, they need example.

I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.

Uncomfortable doesn't mean bad, uncomfortable simply means you're doing something you haven't done before.

Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.