I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.

Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

Parents’ transmit their attitude towards education to children via soundless, aphonic messages.

My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges.

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

I'm a huge film star... but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f--ing minutes. I'm the only guy I know who died in a f--ing Muppet movie.

The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.

I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.

Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse.

Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.

Swift as shadow, short as any dream

The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.