What I meant was, you looked happier in the pictures..

If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique..

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself..

People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art..

You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told..

There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic..

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can ….

Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful..

I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the worl….

It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York; it takes too much energy and endura….

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied..

Money has no religion except itself..

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts..

But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon..

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but musi….

You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!.

I am unable to rule anything out..

I was crazily, deeply, incredibly, joyously, terrifiedly in love..

It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook..

I respect very much my public and also the music I perform..

My life was very Japanese..