If you look back to the earliest religions, before they got organized and started building churches and amassing wealth, they all sprang from the same place - they were inspired by nature.

It's interesting to note that when something like a virus tries to poison us, the first thing our bodies do is heat up. We burn away the infection. Maybe that's what Earth is doing to us.

If you do come across 'Sanctus' in a bookshop, please see past the cross on the cover and the sinister outline of a monk and just read the first page and make your own mind up. If it's still not for you, then that's fine; just put it back and walk away.

I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.

I always believe that Kar-Wai has a complete script: he just doesn't show it to us. He wants us to experience and explore the character. He gives you a lot of space, and you know every time will be a very long journey. You just live in the character, and that's very different from other directors.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.