I find it very stupid that teenagers could only see caricatures of teenagers but they couldn't see films that you try to be a truthful context, a truthful portrayal of teenagers.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.

I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.

As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director. I realized that being an astronaut was not going to be an option, so I said, "Well, I'm going to be a director and do films in space."

The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.

When I learned to switch jealousy for admiration, it unblocked a lot of things.