"The most important thing for any director is to have a good script. If you don't have a good script, you might as well not bother."

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

"If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed."

"The most important thing for me is to try to make films that are interesting to me, and that I would want to see."

"The purpose of art is to make us feel. Not necessarily to make us happy."