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

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.

I do not like producers.

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

Bruce Willis is Bruce Willis in every single movie I've seen him in, except 'Death Becomes Her' and 'Mortal Thoughts,' which is another movie he was in that was very different from what he normally does.