I’ve learned that pain can be the greatest inspiration.

Exploring the unknown is an eternal pursuit of humanity.

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ’Funny Face’ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

The Soviet Union was a civilization of fear, where people lived in constant dread of the knock on the door at night.

永远不要超越你的上司。总是让那些在你之上的人感到舒适地优越。

作为一个导演，最难的事情是弄清楚接下来该做什么。

返祖现象是理解犯罪行为的关键。