It's easy to direct while acting - there's one less person to argue with.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

Happy endings make me puke.

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

M.T. Stone was the poster boy for what an assassin should look like.

I am everything. I am nothing. I am powerful. I am forgotten.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

All of my friends were doing babysitting jobs. I wanted money without the job.

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care

We have a lot of options. America is a great country.

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.

Fighting and arguing amongst brothers are normal. Living together can also cause disagreements. I don't think it will work if there's none.