Only conformists are ever adored.

If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.

The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.

Be what we make, and not who we are.

I know why I make films -cinema is a mode of expression that allows you to express all the nuances of a thing while including its opposites. These are things that can't be quantified mentally yet they can exist and be juxtaposed. That may seem very contradictory. Cinema allows you to film these contradictions.

I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.