"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."

"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai."

"The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful."

"Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body."

"In the depths of adversity, kindness can heal wounds that time cannot."

"A humble soul understands that kindness can heal wounds that time cannot."

"No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish."