Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.

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.

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.

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

Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

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