I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.

I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.

Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.

In my films, I hope there are a few moments where you feel almost illuminated, like in a state of ecstasy, stepping out of yourself, beyond yourself and perceiving something which is only, in the case of cinema, possible in collective dreams.

I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.