I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.

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.

We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.

Self appreciation is a sign of maturity, seeking appreciation is a sign of immaturity

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It's good for the body and it's good for the soul.

When youre on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.

Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.

I'm very wary of news on television.

We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.

If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.