Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.

Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.

Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.

I really like dark, politically incorrect humor.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

Americans don't like European movies.

Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'