Relatable escapism can only be achieved using facets of the real world.

Fear is like a little germ in your head, allow it to grow and it takes over your all.

Life summed up with a marketing slogan: Limited Edition!

Focke's razor: Never attribute to plot holes that which is adequately explained by miracles.

When I’m passionate about something I strive for excellence, judging whether or not I achieved it is up to the audience.

Storytellers are master manipulators transforming non-reality (grounded in reality) into vicarious experience.

Money changes people. This process is more commonly known as trading.

Trial. (Fail.) (Succeed.) Repeat.

When you aim for the stars even if you fail you’ll be a falling star, and that’s wish-fulfilling material.

Progress is hard, achievements are easy, and giving up is easier still.

You won't know how much you’ll miss someone until they’re gone. Go give them a big hug while you have the chance.

If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.

Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.

My father looked as if I'd just gutted him - but it was mingled with a twisted sense of satisfaction. It felt good to hurt his feelings.

There are so many beautiful lives with wrong 'colors'!

If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God.

Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.

I would go to heaven, if I believed in heaven.

Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.

Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.