Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

I guess it’s a good thing that we don’t know what we don’t know

It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

I was always looking for a career that could combine my creative interests with my technical side, and it ends up directing films is the perfect combination.