Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

My level of excitement is above cricket proportions

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

Have good sense, smell the scents, and you will have more cents

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

Little do women know what big ideas I have in my pants.

Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it.

And the most dangerous place on earth - Is where you’re safe.

I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.

We live in a world alive with holy moments. We need only take the time to bring these moments into the light.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.