My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

I'm on the edge of a precipice.

In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety . . . we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.

I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.

It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you've even made it.

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

It takes discipline to be a free spirit.

Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

COOPERATION means to be willing to sacrifice for the sake of others

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical