Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.

I want to be your lover. Burn your list, Jane. Let me be the one.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.

I think the most horrible name for a crime has to be manslaughter. ... "I slaughtered a man! Just like a pig! Put him on a spit and put an apple in his mouth!"

For some people, the way that they're perceived by the outside world is not a priority.

May the Heart of Jesus Christ be our school! Let us make our abode there. Let us study its movements and attempt to conform ours to them. Yes, O Divine Jesus, I want to live there.

The original plan was that James Wan would direct the pilot [of MacGyver ] but it didn't work out, and then it did, which is great. I'm a huge fan.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives