In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.

Sex is alive and well in America. There are a substantial number of people who are having lots of sex.

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.