I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

The muscle memory of filtering away all the wrong versions of what you're doing improves the more time you're on a film set. I feel like my problem-solving algorithm got kicked up a notch.

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single thing that Godard hasn't already thought of. And so you struggle to do something that is not predictable.

When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.