I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.

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'm talking a lot on financing in the Masterclass and I know what it means to because I had to finance my first films, all of them, and I earned my money as a welder in a steel factory doing night shifts while I was still in high school during the day.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.