I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.

Of course subjects are changing, and since I started so early in filmmaking, I did my first film at age 19, of course you grow up with your films and you are not trotting the same path all the time.

I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.

Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.