If you direct your beliefs and thoughts to always work in your favor, nothing else from the outside would succeed in dethroning you from the throne of your God's given destiny.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

I think 'fan' implies somebody who's submissive, sycophantic, in awe of everything you're doing.

The principles always work if you work the principles.

I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.

We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know how to clean and fry a fish.

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.