You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Consistency simplifies the problem more than hard work of one time because no problem cannot possibly beat you everyday.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

I'm not speaking metaphorically, plants that you have in your house, or if you've ever made friends with a tree somewhere, there is a moment that these beings can aid you.

Thinke of ease, but worke on.

What Flaubert refers to as the “mélancholies du voyage” is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives.

Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.

So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue.

There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.

Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.

I never doubted, not ever, that I would succeed.