Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.

A baby is a smiling, dancing moon in our hands just waiting to touch our hearts.

Many become brave when brought to bag.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you.

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others

It took me a long time to realize that being a girl is so much more powerful than being a guy, but I really saw myself as boy for a long while.

The best artists transcend nationality and identity.

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. The harder I work, the luckier I get.

It's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of these things that actually make performers interesting.