An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

The camera is the slave to the actor.

I’m very worried about the depiction of women on the screen. It’s gotten worse than ever and it’s related to their being either high- or low-class concubines, and the only question is when or where they will go to bed, with whom, and how many. There’s nothing to do with the dreams of women, or of woman as the dream, nothing to do with the quirky part of her, the wonder of her.

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.