We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.

If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.

Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.

We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.

I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense