I'm just trying to find some secret places in the human brain because I think movies tend to be too rational sometimes. Everything is supposed to make sense. Everything is supposed to be logical.

I always try to be different. I always want to surprise myself.

I don't like to be on a set and wait three hours, just to make some lighting adjustments. I like to shoot. That's what I want to do. I'd rather shoot something dumb than wait.

To me, the movie is more funny if, at the same time, you can think a little bit or dream a little bit.

It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.

If you lost the love of your life, that's a nightmare.

I'm a small filmmaker, making my small, low-budget movies, but I'm super lucky to know that everybody reacts differently to my movies. That's interesting.

Yeah, the main goal when I'm writing [movie scripts] is to entertain myself. It's supposed to be funny, but then a funny idea can be turned into something else.

I've been obsessed with making movies since I was 15. I watched a lot of movies when I was young, and I decided that I wanted to do that because I was a passionate kid about watching movies.

Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect. ("Miss Esperson")

Speaking English well could open a window of personal and professional opportunities but having great knowledge of business English can give you the edge in becoming indispensable.

New levels bring new devils. Stay unapologetically committed to your goals and let go of anyone who poisons your spirit.

Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country.

Always remember, you will live, you will love, you will dance again.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

When George [Harrison] died the guards at Buckingham Palace played a medley of George's songs during the changing of the guard; that sort of thing never happens.

Without any fight, just being a witness, mind disappears.

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.