I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings.

That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.

One is but a shade of the other.

Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.

When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

The realization of such a thing cannot possibly be as beautiful as its imagining, of course.

When I walk in, they may like me or dislike me, but everybody knows I'm here

We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

We don't really make friends, they make us.

Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.

They be crazier than we are.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.