For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.

Women think in Sirk's films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It's something that has to be seen.

I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

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

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.