We should be in the business of living, not making a living.

I have made more good films than anyone else in the country.

Life continues, irrespective of whether we are there or not.

I never judge, I just show. I am not saying, Do not do that.

I just think good actors are the main reason to make movies.

If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!

Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!

In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors.

Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself

There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it.

I think that every man has a 16-year-old girl inside of him.

It's harder to take care of kids than it is to make a movie.

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.

Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.

Friendship and loyalty shouldn't come in the way of casting.

I am not popular socially. I am uncomfortable around people.

I was born with this bow tie made of celluloid on my collar.

I don't do special effects. I do characters. I do creatures.

One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.

Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

I'm not going to pretend to know one more thing than I know.

You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself.

There were definitely Nazis who saw the error of their ways.

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

I don't think there's any more synesthetic medium than film.

I just love the look of film. But I have nothing against HD.

I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'

As far as I'm concerned, the coolest word in film is 'cult.'

My favorite movie villain? Oh, that's easy. Hannibal Lecter.

There are people who are put on this earth to do everything.

Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.

The ultimate aim of all science is to penetrate the unknown.

I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time.

The damned cats like pushing the reset button on my computer.

The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.

Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

I never studied film theory, so I don't know the terminology.

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Politicians take something out of context to create problems.

I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.

The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

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