My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them.

The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.

You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.

You can leave Hong Kong, but it will never leave you.

I'll take crazy over stupid any day.

Colors were dynamite for us.

The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress.

Bill Hicks is a huge influence. I love him.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.

I didn't write songs for a very long time.

It's amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening.

What's interesting about textiles is that they are determined about three seasons in advance, that's why when you walk into a store you think "Gee, everything looks about the same."