I love first times. I want my whole life to be composed of them. Life is only interesting if life is wide.

To be reborn, you have to die first.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

Passion precedes prosperity.

I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.

I like to work around identification for the audience, and when there's a grown-up or a moral figure or something like that, people tend to go there.

Always speak the truth.

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.

The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.

Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.