My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.

I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

I hate seeing people getting hurt or hurting other people. I hate seeing blood. I am very intolerant of physical pain. I find violence horrifying, so much so that I can't help being intrigued by it.

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.

I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.

What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.

For the great benefits of our being- our life health and reason-we look upon ourselves.

On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.

Just because you're funny doesn't mean you get to be cruel.

I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.

You have to be careful of people who like to talk a big game but can't back it up.

In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.

Venice is all sea and sculpture.

Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.