I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.

As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.

Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.