Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

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.

If you do not evaluate your salvation highly enough, then in time you will backslide

Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.

Nothing's better for art than a little old-fashioned suffering.

I became to understand you and all of you.

Allow your mind to be still and rest in His presence.

The only true dead are those who have been forgotten.

In a universe of love there can be no heaven which tolerates a chamber of horrors.

If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.

When I go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.