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

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

Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings, whoever might be the one exploiting them. It never ends. It's a permanent theme. Whether the state exploits patriotism, or whether in a couple relationship, one partner destroys the other.

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.

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.

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

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