Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.

Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

I like the idea of challenging Hollywood on its own turf. It's important to do that.

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

According to the Law of Attraction, the physical reality that you experience at present is drawn towards the future probability you desired when it attains more power.

In all animals, egoism is in a seed-form. It bears effect as a tree in the human life form! If the egoism is destroyed, ‘one’ becomes the ‘Absolute Supreme Self’[parmatma]!

Asparagus is in season.

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are morally virtuous or vicious.

The Wall will stand for a hundred years.

I get to go back and ride my horses with all the people that I grew up with because that's really fun for me.

With enough time, you can get used to almost anything.

You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.

I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.