I'm interested in the cultural thing - music, then eventually cinema. I think it's part of my struggle as a cultural worker. I'm not into the armed thing. I cannot be violent.

Cinema is the greatest mirror of humanity's struggle. You see this alternative world, but you're part of it. Everybody is part of it. This is our world.

There is no border in my films. You can see yourself in these stories. This is the greatest thing about the power of cinema. It's very present. It's all there. You can't escape it.

There is no border. I'm branding my films as Malay cinema, but it's just about cinema. Everything that I make is about humanity's struggle, so there is no border, really.

It's just high school, man. Those guys are just high school guys, and in ten years they're going to be working for people like me. I know that. I just have to make it through two more years.

Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas.

Maps codify the miracle of existence.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.

The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.

Show true cost of FICA-double what is shown on paychecks.

I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.

To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.