Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.

The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries at the same moment in 17 languages.

I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.

May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

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

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

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.