Individual peace is the unit of world peace.

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

You get all the puzzle parts together enough to say the puzzle is complete. It's a script. In the process of realizing that, new ideas can come, one way or another. Through a happy accident, they just come to you.

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

Achievement is its own reward

Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.