The beauty of cinema is that it allows us to see the world through someone else's eyes.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

我是我自己的实验，我是我自己的艺术品。

Life is too short to wake up with regrets.

"The best music comes from the darkest places."

"I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come."

所以君子严于律己、宽以待人，而平庸的人却宽以待己、严于律人。

Loneliness is not a lack of company, but a lack of purpose.