"The harmony of the universe dictates that a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."

"I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera."

"It is a quiet truth that a life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in."

"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."

"The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee."

"You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks."

"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs."