“Only a scoundrel could speak out against manifestations of heroism. I feel I am being wronged by those who accuse me of representing in my films some anti-heroic tendencies. We had never manifested a cynical attitude towards heroism, but we treated it as a real fact.”
“Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.”
“You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.”