Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.

I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.

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

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

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

I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.