"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."

"I'm not interested in making films that are politically correct. I'm interested in making films that are true to human nature, however ugly that may be."

"One of the most important things in life is to be able to laugh at yourself."

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

"The greatest truth is that there is no truth."