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

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.

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.

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it’s a little closer to being perfect.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.

A straw enables you to drink without using your wrist. A straw is your friend - until you lose eye contact with the straw. Then it will betray you and make you look like an idiot.

KITSIS: What you see at the beginning and think you know is absolutely not what you're going to know at the end.

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

Trump has a lot of authoritarian tendencies that need to be a serious concern.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.