I think if you create well balanced characters that are well represented, boys and girls relate to them whether they're boys or girls.

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.

God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.

Don't lose faith in what you are trying to do, even though you will get pummeled emotionally left and right. There are a lot of "nos" to any "yes." And that's OK.

I'm still the person who naively thinks if I can imagine it, I can have it.

When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine.

If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.

With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to go really deep into what its relationship is.

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.

In order to develop the country's sports in line with the great leaders' ideas and plan of developing Juche-based sports, our Party directs great efforts to the work of the sports sector.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Negative feelings are like weeds. If you don't fully extract them (i.e. pull out the roots), they will come back.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

Don't forget to bring that little blonde haired girl along. You know the one, love to watch her jump up and down.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.