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" I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro. "

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" When you finish a film, you never want to see it again. "

" I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero. "

" Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother. "

" In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I. "

" When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life. "

" When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about. "

" I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have. "

" There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for. "

" I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience. "

" Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons. "

" I am very shy with people I don't know. "

" My education was very tough. "

" I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect. "

" The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left. "

" I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. "

" The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second. "

" People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct. "

" I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere. "

" The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage. "

" Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death. "

" On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against. "

" I have a feeling of complete balance. The sea, the house, the loneliness, the light. Everything is clearer. Much more precise. I have the feeling that I am living on a limit, and I'm crossing that limit sometimes. "

" My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires. "

" The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying. "

" Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience. "

" The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy. "

" Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa. "

" We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life. "

" I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time. "