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

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

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

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

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

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

The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im convinced, bad ones, because they made people sick. So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.