I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission" or something like that.

There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

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.