Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep.

Study the nature around you, but also within you.

The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.

Have courage to go your own way and fulfil the dreams that are unique and important to you.

People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.

It is possible to be happy and successful by living on one’s own terms.

I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.

In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown.

Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.

Water creates so much beauty, life and mystery.

Water is intrinsically linked to the mystery and excitement of discovering new worlds.

First love is dangerous only when it is also the last.

If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.

I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.

The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.

I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen

If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray.

Of course you can have an opinion about Islam without having read Qur'an. You don't have to read Mein Kampf to have an opinion about Nazism.

Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.