I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.

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.

If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on.

I would like to go on that path of evolving into a better actor.

It comes out so quietly that I have to ask her to repeat it: “It’s just that I thought maybe you were married to me.

If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

Those involved with practical reactors, humbled by their experiences, speak less and worry more.

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

Handel is only fourth rate. He's not even interesting.

I am myself. That is not enough.