You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.

In search of myself, I have created myself.

Your words determine who you are and who you want to be.

All the little birdies had flown out of this man's tree.

It takes just one wave to capsize a boat, and one more to take it down.

Man unlike the animal has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me.

In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.

I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.

First I went left, he did too. Then I went right, and he did too. Then I went left again, and he went to buy a hot dog.