Once I start shooting I forget the scriptwriter in me. I like things flowing. If you have talented actors who bring their own ideas, it can be much better than what you have worked out.

When an audience is laughing, that's opening their souls somehow, and when you have an audience with an open soul, it's much better to hit them with a knife.

Germans try to categorize films: in a comedy, you just laugh and in a drama, you're not allowed to laugh. I don't believe in that, sometimes we laugh and cry in the same hour.

Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time.

I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters.

Maybe every two films you need to do documentary to tell what you really want to tell and not be limited by the medium. With documentary you don't create the reality you have to hunt the reality.

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.

I don't like violence in movies, I'm not a kind of Tarantino fan. But sometimes it's necessary.

As a director, you can transform your vision more with the music.

I always listen to music when I write, I need a rhythm to write.

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, which Jiu Jitsu provides.

Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.