With each new album: I need to kill the last version of me..

I don't have to announce all the women I've slept with..

Everybody has something to conceal..

You take advantage of your position as a famous actor to meet women..

As a director, you're only as good as your collaborators. You surround with collaborators that are going to understand what you're trying to do. Not ….

I prefer to have playback, but sometimes, you can't have that under most circumstances. First, it is expensive because you need a playback operator a….

Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing..

It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true..

The core of a director is the person's tastes in what elements go together and how they go together. It's a puzzle..

I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script..

I like great directors who are scarce. Prolific ones are nice too but for me, there's something about the scarcity that makes it all the more valuabl….

For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make this film. That's part of t….

After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me..

You don’t have to have a boyfriend to be happy, to be pretty, or belong..

I'm into women. I've always loved women..

Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of w….

It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process..

Humans sort of instinctively respond negatively to something that's not true..

Buy less, buy better, and really wear it..

I think that I just need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged..

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything..