You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

Before building any relationship, think on how your partner could be the best companion to you in achieving your life’s earnest goals

A girl is just like a movie, you want to know what happends next, and how it will end...

Hey, I used to eat at McDonald's: I liked the taste of the food, especially the French fries.

By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

I don't like my face. I don't like to look at it.

I believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard.

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

The knowledge of everything knowable is not yet wisdom

There's more variation among human groups than between human groups.

I hated repeating myself. The last films I've done - not once did I ever have the feeling that I was dialing it in.