The rest of the rebels were recruited from the ranks of the young and excitable and had rather more enthusiasm than skill.

Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

You must value something highly to go to war to improve it

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

I think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles.

Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function.

In "Drive," there's a heightened male edge. In "Only God Forgives," it was almost crawling back into the womb of the mother. And now with "The Neon Demon," being reborn as a 16-year-old girl.

I only want to make movies I want to see. That may mean my career is somewhat limited, but that is my version of integrity. No matter how it performs or how it's received, I can be okay with it.