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.

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.

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

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

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.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Leaders scan the future so it can be free of doubts and fear. They do so by not living a double standard life in the present.

That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win, but what a shnoozo.

I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.

Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

I think that's kind of indicative of a type of self-confidence that people develop when they recognize their own ability to create.

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.