Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

What is the good of influence if one can only use it on strangers?

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.

A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

Of course, we all need to have basic necessities met, such as good health care, good food, good education and good housing. But what is good? Having too much is bad, as having too little is also bad.