Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.

Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.

I think there can be incestuous love.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me.

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

If you care too much about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner. Lao Tzu

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?

I can always remember standing up to the baddest girls in my elementary school. Wherever I went, there was always a mean girl, and that girl would always hate me because I wouldn’t bow down.

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life is all about.

Life isn't all beer and skittles.