"Jack Reacher" was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.

There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

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

The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.

I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.

North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.