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

You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.

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

It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.

I must say, the people who started this whole Masterclass series have been very helpful and very intelligent to point out certain things and also give me some guidance, "isn't there something missing, shouldn't we address this or that?" so it's not completely alone out of the blue. It's very well thought through.

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 think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.