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

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

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

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'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.

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

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