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

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.

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

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.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

Every word on every page, represents a love that captured this heart... fully, and never set it free.

The Prophet was a true friend to the king. Our true friends are those who tell us the truth, even when we don't want to hear it.

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.

There was never any question about his (Enos Slaughter) courage. He proved it by getting married four times.

The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might change, because of international terrorism and Red China.

The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.