This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.

There's this scene in "The Night of the Hunter" when the kids are downstairs, and you have the feeling that they're both in a room and at the same time it looks remote. And you wonder, How can you give the effect of both "inside" and "outside" at the same time. And you realize, by watching it many times, that around the scene there's this black edging.

A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.

Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!

The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It's not at all the same.

Life is too short to be lived badly.