Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

The time to hesitate is through.

Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.