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

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.

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

'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.

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.

Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect, but it's there for us, trying the best it can. That's what makes it so damn beautiful.

you call democracy freedom. I call it corporation.

We can't escape history, anymore than we can recapture it." Master Kai

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way and the other to let her have it.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.

Unfortunately, we are very poor with PR skills but in serving people- we are superhero.

We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.

Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?

Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.