My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

I hate seeing people getting hurt or hurting other people. I hate seeing blood. I am very intolerant of physical pain. I find violence horrifying, so much so that I can't help being intrigued by it.

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.

My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.

I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.

Love, I'm pretty sure, is light.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Ambition is a noble passion which may legitimately take many forms

The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it.

Any love that is love is right.

Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.

In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.

I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.

When runners win a big race these days, they get a car. When I won a big race, I got a ride.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours.