I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

... I've run out of options. Stay with the lying psycho or work for the other lying psycho.

My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.

If I’m a monster, mademoiselle, it’s because man’s cruelty has made me so.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

After you have been eating greens for 6 months, you will feel that something is missing unless you have them each day.

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

Future is everything that past has forgotten.