Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.

Tokyo is like a huge futuristic pinball machine. It's like a bubble with two lost creatures inside a pinball machine that doesn't care about them. The other thing is, it's very colorful.

Vengeance is a human right.

The good thing about forbidding the death penalty is that society won't be able to kill people who are not guilty, but at the same time there are some people that are just such a mental mess that, you know, they will never get out of their obsessions and they can keep them forever.

I think that in the American film industry - or even in the European cinema - movies are made not to disturb any kind of class or any kind of minority.

In England they need a king, in Spain they need a king, in France there is no more king. But they consider the president as if he was a king.

In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just R-rated in France. But when you meet French producers with a script like mine, they behave like the most fragile chickens in the world. They just tell you "Oh, no. You should cut this. You should cut that." And at the end you have been totally censored on the synopsis, and then on the script.