There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I don't want people to get annoyed by it, but it's good to have a message.

Do not fear. Some things will never change.

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.

I think every good, entertaining movie should have a message. I really believe that, because if you do it without it, the film feels a little bit soulless.

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

A lot of stuff in Wikipedia is not true, and that goes for a lot of people. I sometimes think, "How can that happen?" But Wikipedia is maintained by people, and everybody can add stuff to it.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

Remember this, - where there is life there is hope. You're alive. Embrace this, because YOU CAN DO ANYTHING while there is breath in your body.

If you wear a big smile on your face and a really nice shoes on your feet, chances are that most people will like you.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.

I was walking down the street the other day and these construction workers were working on the roof hammering away. One of them told me I was a paranoid lunatic... in morse code.

In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

Every human being has creative powers. You were born to create. Appreciate your inborn potential.

As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment.

India may be overtaking China as the world's most polluted country. Even now, which country is worse depends on the day.