You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire

I am now half Asian. I have learned all the ancient teachings of Buddi.

Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.

Who is going to find out? These women are trash. Nobody’s going to believe them.

Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we normally live our lives and we'd sort of like to find out what it is.

I don't know if I could ever really be cast in a heartthrob role apart from 'Twilight,' which I didn't really know was a heartthrob role. I really don't feel I am one.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.