Of course subjects are changing, and since I started so early in filmmaking, I did my first film at age 19, of course you grow up with your films and you are not trotting the same path all the time.

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.

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

You don't have to die in order to make a living!

I'm catholic in the same way, that if a cow was born in a tree, it's a bird!

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.