I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

I just thinks it's interesting what it takes an actor to find their characters through the wardrobe, or the hair, or the way a character walks.

You're never nice to your friends. You're nice to people you don't like!

To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason, so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

Sometimes the truth feels good.

As we mature and develop awareness to match our potential, our ability to enjoy full health is realized. As we enjoy this fruit, we sow the seeds of greatness in our children.

Audience engagement is critical to the survival of your brand

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.