"You could walk out of the house, but you always returned home."

“You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.”

“I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.”

“As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.”

“If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands”

“The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists.”

Source : "CNN Live at Daybreak", www.cnn.com. February 17, 2005.

“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander”

“I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary ideas.”

Source : Frans Johansson (2006). “The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation”, p.2, Harvard Business Press