We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Freedom is not having a big budget.
Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.
I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.
I’m an anxious person. What I like best is to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. A perfect day for me is a day with coffee, cigarettes, and music, to quote Jim Jarmusch.
I don't think I make genre movies. There is a certain type of violence in my films but I think I have my own genre because I made it happen like that.
Start with scout locations first.
Our differences should not be exaggerated.
When something online is free, you're not the customer, you're the product.
Despite my vast interest in other universes and new ideas and space, travel and time travel, which by the way I think is impossible, the basic thing is human character, which is the main thing of most writers.
When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, "When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won't. "