I storyboard every shot of my thrillers in general. I draw them out and do them.

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

Babe!

Destiny is usually around the corner. Like a thief, like a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it

What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up.

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.

The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.