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" Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. "

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" I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations. "

" Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are. "

" Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart. "

" There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance. "

" The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside. "

" I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard. "

" The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. "

" I'm not an activist. "

" I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties. "

" You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise. "

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

" Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision. "

" Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that. "

" I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground. "

" You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. "

" I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. "

" I'm the last one who would do self-analysis. "

" I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that! "

" I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk. "

" Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault. "

" I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity. "

" I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. "

" Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one. "

" I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. "

" I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office. "

" If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him. "

" I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. "

" I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters. "

" I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent. "