Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than on…there was something touching and appealing about her.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

How much you love yourself will define how much others will love you.

I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents.

Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power.

It’s never too late to find that one person who can change you, for a reason, a season or a lifetime.

[T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life.

I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer.

Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.

You're the Sue Sylvester of NXT.

Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.