Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

The blessings of the devil is the beginning of dread.

McDonald's Meets Moschino at Milan Fashion Week

When I'm into a woman, I literally can't stop staring. I'm like a little kid. I become completely entranced.

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

A dog has no shame. If he can do it, you can watch.

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

It is easy to rule over the good.

I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.

If young children boo me, that makes my day.