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..

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

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

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

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism….

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

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yoursel….

The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im convinced, bad ones,….

People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films that way. They….

Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And I don't believe that me….

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to b….

Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned ….

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

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

Women think in Sirk's films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what wo….

I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instea….

I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a ….

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

Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings, w….

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