We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.

For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.

There is something inherently tough about Americans. They will not accept defeat.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

Life is not only about dark nights; it's also about beautiful, sunshiny mornings.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.

People think I'm this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage.

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

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.

Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time.

I don't mind going from sadness to comedy in a split-second or mixing the two up.

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.

To me it's more fun and more challenging, too, to do different types of pictures.

God gives everyone the same amount of talent. It's just up to you to korek (dig).

You think it's so cool to have movie stars in your movie, but they become people.

I think I was a feminist before being born. I had a feminist chromosome somewhere.

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

I think the film gives you a picture of a person. It gives you a complete picture.

It always surprises me in films that killers seem so gleeful about killing people.

In mainland China, there are many good theaters - sometimes better than Hong Kong.

Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.

Kalki is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I am madly in love with her.

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

I think I've been very, very lucky in my life, and I do believe in public service.

Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude.

I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.

Every movie is different. Every movie requires its own sort of photographic voice.

People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical.

People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.

If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them.

My older brother took me to Woody Allen double features when I was still teething.

We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.

I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.

If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them.

All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

In 2007, 'Diary of the Dead' all of a sudden made money. I was blindsided by that.

From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies.

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