When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.

For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.

When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.

for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.

There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.

I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.