Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.

I think there can be incestuous love.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me.

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

Instead of your life just disappearing or being wasted or spent, you are racing to make sure that it is being converted, making sure that it is being actually invested.

They'll want to kill the crazies first. Big fish eat little fish -- always have, always will.

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.

Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.

The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

You can't change what you don't acknowledge.

The road to a friend's house is never long.

Mushy reviews are a breach of faith