There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

Are you in my dream too?

There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?

I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.

I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.

I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.

I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!

My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their voice.

I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.

Its hard to communicate anything exactly and thats why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

If cars and buses were attacked daily by petrol bombs or stones for 16 months in Washington, could you imagine it would be tolerated? It would not, because in the name of democracy, to preserve democracy, steps would be taken.

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

I had a fistfight with every kid on my block. I got about fifteen broken noses to prove it. Part of it was also because I was always drawing, and I always had an artist portfolio with me. But I was a tough kid. I won their respect.

And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.

You were the coast and I was the sea, and no matter how much I tried to take you make you mine, you refused to become a part of me.

You may agree or not with Gaddafi's political ideas, but no one has the right to question the existence of Libya as an independent state and member of the United Nations.

One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.

As a cure for worrying work is better than whiskey.

I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.

I've always been conscientious and hardworking. I've never wasted time.

Contentment is the enemy of improvement.

I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.

If you are not failing now and again its a sign you are not doing anything very innovative.

Make good habits and they will make you.

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

If you ever find yourself in doubt follow your heart as it will guide you to the right course.