God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.

Don't lose faith in what you are trying to do, even though you will get pummeled emotionally left and right. There are a lot of "nos" to any "yes." And that's OK.

I'm still the person who naively thinks if I can imagine it, I can have it.

When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.

I think if you create well balanced characters that are well represented, boys and girls relate to them whether they're boys or girls.

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine.

If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.

With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to go really deep into what its relationship is.

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

Do not mess with this man's threads!

It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.

The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.

You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.

Vladimir Putin celebrated his 63rd birthday today. He had a nice party, but it got awkward when two of his friends got him the same country.

Life is priceless even to an ant.

We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.