The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.