"It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else."

"A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene."

"The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to."

"Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way."

"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."

"Vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else."

"Vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."