I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.

There are photos of Kim Jong-un right up atop the volcano. I actually wrote a letter to him asking if I could speak on camera. I never got an answer. But what was interesting was the people who were responsible for us, our "guards," it took them two days to figure out how I should address him. "President? No, you can't because there's a president for eternity." And it was a time when his status was still in flux. Only a few months later there was this party congress which assigned an official title to him, but that was after we did our film.

Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.

If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.

I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.

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

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.