I'm not a one-trick horse.

I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after.

We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, "Do we have another 100,000 years?" In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.

I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.

Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.