A real explosion is not only much more fun to shoot, it also helps the actors and creates an energy on set and ultimately in the scene.

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

What are the stories you want people to tell about you?

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

Even when we make mistakes, we hope others will love us in spite of our shortcomings - even if we don't deserve it.

Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.

I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.

It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.

I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.

Fashion's recognized as a business now, but it was something that was almost underground when I started.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.

A man-of-war is the best ambassador.

Let each man do his best.