The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.

We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think.

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.