Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

A different language is a different vision of life.