If you have an idea that seems worth doing, don't wait to hire other people and get funding and all those things. Just start doing it, wait to see what happens, and then iterate on that.

There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I'm not into all that.

Don't throw out buzz words without really knowing what is going on behind it.

Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

I can get caught in many things but there is one thing I will never get caught in, and that is acting - because I don't act. On screen I am like I am in real life.

I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.

I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.