I have learned a lot through defeats, and, until today, it's - I'm still haunted by defeats, and they do happen. Sometimes, a film of mine is rejected. And how do you deal with it? And you have to learn how to deal with it and survive anyway.

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

Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life.

I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

I'm talking a lot on financing in the Masterclass and I know what it means to because I had to finance my first films, all of them, and I earned my money as a welder in a steel factory doing night shifts while I was still in high school during the day.

I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.