The best films are because of nobody but the director.

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.

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.

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

Sun is a cosmic hand which tries to reach you wherever you are!

He could follow someone’s mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where it was going.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

I don't mind paying higher taxes, because I've done quite well and I'm blessed to live in this country.

The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create.

If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same. A dead good man is replaced by a good man, a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man. While the whole remains the same, every day is different.