“You cannot mix sports with politics.”

“Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.”

“I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.”

“When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.”

“Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.”

“Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.”

“I feel like every project I work on is a dream project, so long as I am learning.”

“Love, too, has to be learned.”

“Every pain is a lesson.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”