"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."

"I have a wife, three children, three dogs, seven cats. I'm not a Franz Kafka, sitting alone and suffering."

"The world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

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