I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically:. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

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 m…

The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror... but I have learned that if I can master the negative forces a…

The official designs of the Government, especially its designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage, may be described, I think, as the silent ambassad…

The Nazis hated culture itself, because it is essentially international and therefore subversive of nationalism. What they called Nazi culture was a local, per…

'Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.'