North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.

I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. Of course, there's a lot of misery. But it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain.

There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.

Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.