My private life has nothing to do with my films.

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.

To give up is easy. But to hold it together when everyone else thinks you'd fall apart is true strength.

Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music again.

First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

As a designer, you always take facets of different people and you mix them together with your own thoughts and information and creativity and passion.