In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious they are the dictator inside ourselves.

I think a good director is a good listener.

You cannot make promises because you never know what your next project will be.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength.

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.

Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

Lust, I suspect, wears repatent stilettos, that feather boa and not much else. Maybe glossy red lipstick.

Finding the tool is often half the battle.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.

It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

I get called 'controversial' all the time.

I think if you're in favor of World War III, you have your candidate. You know, here's the thing.

I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

I've felt love from certain songs that I've wanted to experience from other people - where I know that love may never happen - and I want to give that to someone else.