I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.

For example, the face of Nicole Kidman in Queen of the Desert and she is the most beautiful goddess on screen that you can find anywhere around in the world. There's no imperfections, and yet I don't need to know every single pore in her face.

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and who incidentally were still roaming the landscape at the time the paintings were made. It is striking that there is a distant cultural echo that seems to reach all the way down to us, over dozens of millennia.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

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