I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.

Netflix trusted me in a way that was very, very pleasant.

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.

If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.

THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.

By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.