"The most important thing for me is to try to make films that are interesting to me, and that I would want to see."

"Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous."

"The idea that social restraints are all bad is based on a utopian and unrealistic vision of man."

"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."

"The criminal and the soldier at least have the virtue of being against something or for something in a world where many people have learned to accept a kind of grey nothingness, to strike an unreal se…"