If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.

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

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.

I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.

I have worked for YouTube like texting and driving because I was curious to test what's out there and how does it function, can I release something like about texting and driving to very young audiences, at the age where they do their drivers test? And the response was phenomenal, millions of people saw it.

Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.

The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.