I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.

Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches.

God accentuate our mind with exact words to write.

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.

It's time to believe in what you know.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

When God made up this world of ours, He made it long and wide, And meant that it should shelter all, And none should be denied.

Yeah, I'll pay your cab fare home, you can even use my best cologne, just don't be here in the morning when I wake up.

I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).