My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

Chase your dreams and see how far you can reach.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

Do not ask God the way to heaven

A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?

To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Out of mind as soon as out of sight.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.