When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

I just thinks it's interesting what it takes an actor to find their characters through the wardrobe, or the hair, or the way a character walks.

You're never nice to your friends. You're nice to people you don't like!

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

My mind is like the Titanic, to many brain cells for the life boats.

A guru is a person who can radiate lights of wisdom to enlighten the path of life for others.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

From our primary schools to secondary schools, to tertiary institutions, there must be a mass campaign to educate our people in the value of labour.

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.

I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk.

How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?

To hit 100 miles per hour, that's something. I couldn't believe it when I first saw it, but it's something I can do and think about.

But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow. [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]