Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.

An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.

I think about the sincerity of my writing. I try to be true, to pose questions. Shake people up a bit and make them look in a direction they wouldn't normally.

I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.

It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's a different matter.

They shall arrive in a murmurAnd shall disappear into fog and earth

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

Every day is exciting when you don’t live your life based on religion alone

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

I hope this might be forever.

Perhaps we can start counting those kisses once more. I think you owe me a few.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it.

I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

Martin Jol is literally a dead man walking