The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.