If you can keep going and never give up, ultimately you will get something that you really want.

To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time.

There's no common taste in this world.

I don't hate being an actor. But if there's a choice, I prefer to direct.

If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

I had a dog I raised for many years. He was a Pekingese with big eyes and a flat face, very cute.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

Every project for me is a risk that I bet on. I believe my senses, and hopefully it will be successful. But sometimes you make it, and sometimes you fail.

I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.

I like working as a director most.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyday life

Love others the way God loves you

Considering things in the ecumenical measure, we are the microbes of the Universe.

Mistakes are proof that you are trying.

I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

Realistically I know I'm an entertainer. When you're exciting, you're remembered.

There is a way hook ups are serving young women. And it was important for me to always talk about how behaviours were serving girls, not just making them the victims.

The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.