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

"I've never been certain whether the world is run by smart men who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."

"Violence is one of the most dramatic forms of human interaction."

"The most important thing for an artist is to be true to himself, and not to compromise his vision for anyone else."

"The very meaning of life is suffering. We are born to suffer, to suffer to help others to suffer."