西方赢得了世界，并不是因为其思想、价值观或宗教的优越性，而是因为在应用有组织的暴力方面的优势。

真正的领导力在于为他人创造价值，而不仅仅是为自己。

Everyone has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean. Everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them.

日本人是世界上已知的最矛盾的民族。

"Every film is a journey, and as a director, you have to be prepared for the unexpected."

To write is to confront the silence.

The past is always changing, because we are always changing our relationship to it.