What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

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.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

Some day this war is going to end...

The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die.

You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

When I go into the stores, I pet the saddles. Until security comes and takes me away.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

To say 'well done'to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

I always feel pressure. What I don't have is fear. But pressure, there always is, and whoever says otherwise is lying.

Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.

The appalling details of the campaign of intimidation - which include grave-robbing - show the depths to which the animal extremists are prepared to stoop.