Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved-that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

The very meaningless of life forces man to create his own meanings. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.