I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.

It doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film.

Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.

You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.