"I just want the same rights that a novelist has... you can write a novel about a bastard, but he can be totally interesting."

"I'm not interested in being a nice guy. I'm interested in being a good filmmaker."

"I like to torture my characters. I like to put them in impossible situations and see how they react."

"The minute you put handcuffs on artists because of stuff like that, it's not an art form anymore."

"I don't like to be told what to do. I like to do what I want to do."