"I don't like to talk about my films. I like to let them speak for themselves."

"The Holocaust was about Jews being killed, but the real story is that six million people were killed for no reason."

"Perhaps it's a good thing that human beings are not immortal. If they were, they'd get tired of living and fall into a state of profound boredom. It's the knowledge of death that makes life precious."

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier s…"

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."