Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.

THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.

By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.

I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.

I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.