"Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater."

"It's weird. I always had the premonition that Sharon belonged to me just for a little while."

"She was the least hypocritical woman you could ever meet: once, when an executive told her that we should ask for sin…"

"I'm forced to mix with people of this industry and I can swear that is really difficult to meet people with her natur…"

"Without her I feel lost, I can't explain this in words. However there are things that I just can't stand thinking of;…"

"I don't know that you can speak of shock … Nothing is too shocking for me. I don't really know what is shocking. When…"

"I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambiti…"

"It's easy to direct while acting — there’s one less person to argue with."

"If I had killed somebody, it wouldn’t have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… fucking, you see, and the y…"

"My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way."