I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.

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

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.

I try to be after something that is deeply reverberating inside of our souls, some deep echo from - even from prehistory. What makes us humans? How do we communicate? Where are we going at this moment? Something for an audience where they can step outside of themselves, where they can be almost like in ecstasy of truth, some sort of deep illumination. And that's what I'm trying in documentaries and in feature films.

Robert Rodriguez, makes a feature film in 35mm celluloid one and a half hours long, and nobody believed him, I think he wrote a book about it and gave all the details of how he spent the money, even making a 35mm celluloid feature film was possible, at least for Rodriguez.