Some experience is helpful. "The Pianist" was a film that I could make with my eyes closed because I had lived it and everything was still alive in me.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

Happy endings make me puke.

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

Adversity is an adventure.

Every great achiever knows the power of motivation.

It takes wisdom to know when you've had enough, strength to make the decision and determination to see it through.

Let us see our life through the lens of our love, we will find that life is amazing and magical.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.

The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.

I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days.

Ignisecond, n.: The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!"

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.