I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

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.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

Everything that matters hurts, until it doesn't matter anymore.

Truth... has no obligation to console you.

I've been playing music most of my life.

He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.

Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius.

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.