No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing and changing within time.

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to genius, are scattered about the world like warning notices in a mine field.

It was my kingdom. And when enemies attack your kingdom, you don’t flee. You show them why it’s your kingdom.

People just get kicks out of making other people sad.

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a plane of attention and can become attention itself.

I want to do more sci-fi films. I want to play half-alien, half-illegal alien.

Whatever it is, I give it my all. You have to do everything you want in this one life that you have.

Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.

For me, I look at a project that has a story that's going to resonate in some way. It doesn't have to be about a message. It doesn't have to have some underlying theme of overwhelming importance.