Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

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.

I looked, for example, to certain types of literature to which I would like to refer, like The Peregrine by J. A. Baker, and I mention a book, "read this, read it, read it if you are serious of being in any type of art or into filmmaking," or films that I should quote as examples.

If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

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

With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.