The negative has to be done on an A and B [roll] so you don't see the cuts, the splices on the frameline.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.

I think there can be incestuous love.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

You should create a system or structure helping you to turn your dream into reality

I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done.

... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

Craft your love into everything

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

One night I prayed to God, I asked could he please remove my enemies from my life, and before you knew it I started losing friends.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.