You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

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.

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

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

-It's extremely cool how the words can stay the same but their meaning can change.-Because the reader changes.-EXACTLY

There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.

I get to wear Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen and crazy stuff, but of course, my mom would never in a million years let me buy that. She won't even let me buy my own pair of skis!

I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.

Don't live in the past and don't carry the past around like a burden.

The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.

I want a shot for people like me to grow up and do something with themselves.

My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.