There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

The tone of the picture and the atmosphere was in my head and in my blood in a way once I'd decided to make the picture. I had to find my way through that to choose, select, emphasise certain visual elements and sound.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.