Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

When people don't gossip or talk about you, you are not making waves.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.

Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.

The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.

Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.

When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.

Short term "dash for cash" economic solutions hinder progress towards a better, more sustainable, world