Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.

I think women assess time passage much better than men - because of their biological clocks - and they are much more realistic about measuring out time, whereas men tend to hang onto things. Women acknowledge the biology of their time, and dance through the beat of that drum...whereas men just drum.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

Movies are about time. You can take that momentum and manipulate time as well, or you can deliberately slow it down, stop it, and start it again. There is no other art form that does that type of manipulation in that way.