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Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

For all of us it's the things that won't work that keep our interest.