I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Only by showing the world the cataclysmic cost of a world divided can it appreciate the wonders of life and endless possibilities of a world united.

We can all receive the gifts of our unique ancestry and harness them to forge a path of joy and healing.

Love! In the midst of darkness, you're my guiding light.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.