We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.

You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.

Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.

I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.

There are certain times you want to be here and there are certain times you want to just go. And when you go, it's usually so exhausting you have to check into a hospital when you come home!

I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.

When art is really great, it's really powerful, can really do something to you, make you feel more alive and make you feel more connected to something. If you don't feel like that when you do it, and you just make a movie to make money, that would be pretty boring to me. I just wouldn't do it. That would be like sitting in an office, which I don't want to do.