It seems odd, but people who see my films normally take them in in a deeper way than you would actually watch a film, let's say The Terminator or whatever.

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.

Poncho was in a red mood slanging with rage and needed to cook himself out of it, while shoving handfuls of salted peanuts down his gullet and slurping ice cold Fanta

We tend to think that what matters is decided by society or culture or religion or our peers, but no one can say what truly matters except us.

Aiden was gone. Like Caleb, but in a different way. I'd lost both of them.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.

God didn't create any of us to be average. He didn't make us to barely get by. We were created to excel.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

You have your children and it's hard to even hold it in - emotionally.

What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.