[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the range and look of film. I believe personally that film has more.

I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.

To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.

I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are fated to become what they become.

My mantra is "Better is better".

The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.

Kita selalu jumpa orang baik-baik sewaktu mengembara, bukan sebab nasib kita baik. Tapi sebab Tuhan kasihan.

To feel the joy of life, welcome everyone with a smile.

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.

I know not whence I came, nor whither I go, nor who I am.

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

There are probably still people that are competitive with each other, but I don't feel that's necessary. I like when we lift each other up.

It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.

There's a lot of people out there that's starting to sound like me so I guess I'm doing something right.