We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.

Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.

All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.

The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working.

but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the military.

But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.