Its very hard trying to talk to an actor about how they should deliver lines, or cut their hair, unless it comes from a place of a strong point of view.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.

Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

I have a short attention span.

Feed your child ideas of peace, harmony and compassion but at the same time give them courage to defend their identity and dignity.

Leaders lead themselves first and foremost. Only then can they act as example and inspiration to others.

Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.

Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life and are attached to the duties yet escape the harsher blows make acute and balanced observers.

I'm an illegal alien and have been for many years. If you rub my skin, I go green.

By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.

Before I began seeing a therapist, I lost a few iPhones due to chucking them across a room.

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.