I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.

It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.

You also can understand how to play tennis from Serena Williams, and she is awesome. I haven't seen her Masterclass but just watching her on the court - I saw some of Wimbledon on TV and there's such an awesome force in her and focus and determination and technique, you just look at her and it's awesome. If I would like to learn tennis I would immediately turn to her.

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.

Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

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.