For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

I run my own film school, the Rogue Film School, and I do it over three and a half days, eight hours non-stop everyday; alone, single-handedly. But the difference is in the Rogue Film School I do have real human beings in front of me from all over the world, and of course there's this course as well, they can ask, talk about their problems and obstacles, finances, anything, you just name it. Whereas in the Masterclass, you are speaking to cameras.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.

North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.

Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.