I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.

I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life.