I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about the films. I don't care if they're flushed down the toilet after I die.

And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.

To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.

If I could just hope to have a major talent, then I would rather have it in music than in any other field.

The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.