At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.

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.

The supremacy of cerebral, manipulative thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life.

I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry.

Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him.

Reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention, where they could be held for years without any representation or charges, is distressing.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

Sacrifice, that's what we do for the people we love.

Moore's law is really about economics.

No, I don't want to give my people sticks. I want to give them eyes.

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.