I've got to the stage in life where all my friends are rich or dead

I've never made something I've regretted

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.

The best strategy is a balance between having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy.

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

You just become adaptable and try to lead a good life in ways that make sense, regardless. Because I know at the end of it, if I'm going to meet Jesus or Allah or Buddha, I'm going to be all right.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.