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Horror is a very conservative genre. It's about preserving the status quo. Fantasy is about changing the status quo.

I don't like to be told what to do. I'm a bit of a rebel.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

You never truly know a man until you understand what he fears.

I like to make films that are very personal, very intimate, very emotional, and very passionate.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

I make Westerns. I'm a director. I make pictures.

If there's one thing I hate, it's a good script.

I make films for people, not for critics.

The public is always right. If it is not right, it is because it has not been given the right information.

The task I'm trying to achieve is above all to make you see.

Art is always conflict, according to its basic principle.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

I steal from every single movie ever made.

The only way to learn is to do. The only way to do is to be. And the only way to be is to be yourself.

I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.