I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

Self-master is the greatest success.

My prayer life IS my life.

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

Arsenal have the wind in their sails and they need to put their foot to the floor.

We're going to let foreign corporations and their CEO's decide the outcomes of the [presidential elections] you just can't do this.

whatever you love, that is your weakness

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.

Competence is a great creator of confidence.

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.

There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages.