If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Some men are more easily broken by kindness than censure.

A pretty heart is more valuable than a pretty face.

A book of Verses underneath the Bough A Jug of Wine a Loaf of Bread - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - Oh Wilderness were Paradise enow!

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.

The mental pattern must always precede the material form.