Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.

There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.

I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

Venezuela has changed forever, there is no turning back.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.

Sweden is famous for many things - but not fashion.

I was also very concerned about protecting my family.