In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.

I think I'm a prudent filmmaker.

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

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.

Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.

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