Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.

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.

The only way to find happiness is to create it inside your mind.

Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul

But you don't know what it was like. It was just the two of us that afternoon, and then . . . and then it was just me.

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand

The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.

For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes?

Brilliant landing.. We´re trying to keep a low profile, and here you´ve gone and made it look like a meteorite hit.

Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.