I should say that I was a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.

Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.