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

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" Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. "

" If I don't create, I don't exist. "

" 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. "

" 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 am forever living in my childhood. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy. "

" I am very much aware of my own double self. The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child. He is not rational; he is impulsive and extremely emotional. "

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

" I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.' "

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

" There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence. "

" I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting. "

" 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 am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life. "

" Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father. "

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

" I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole. "

" 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. "

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