I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.

Every human is born of collusion. We come into this world the result of a covenant. Sometimes made of love. Sometimes of circumstance. But almost always made in secret.

If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance.

Intrinsic value is not measured by how much money you make, it's measured by the size of the problem you solve.

Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.

When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.