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.

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.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

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

A tormented mind wants to forget, what a broken heart will always remember.

One way or another way it will happen..., until then make the correct choice. You don't want to go into the wrong path!

A pool just isn't the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.

Don’t sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will persuade them.