Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.

I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.

Without fools there would be no wisdom.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

I'm still the same guy you knew five minutes ago.

The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.

Liverpool are one of the dynasties of the game. They have won five European Cups and their status is up there with AC Milan, Inter Milan, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.

For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes.

All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

Whenever we touch someone's life, we leave a trace over there. Always leave good traces so that you can walk in the streets freely!

Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle