I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

I feel like, when the audience connects with something, they enjoy the experience so much that they want other people to go have it. They're like, "Don't talk about it. Don't tell. Just go!" It's a nice feeling to have people coming around it that way, protecting the ideas in it, so that everyone can see it for themselves.

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.

It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.