You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.

I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably.

All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context.

I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious undertones. There are some ideas that are more frivolous to me. The next idea that could occur to me could be comedy about death and famine or something.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.