'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.

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.

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.

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.

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.It’s for their own good.

Who we are’ and ‘what is our own’ that we have to understand

Say you were split, you were split in fragments and none of the pieces would talk to you. Wouldn't you want to be who you had been? Well, maybe I'd want that too.

Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.

I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshipers.

The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

I had always wanted to write a song called 'The Vicious Circle'. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

One key symptom of alcoholism is that the individual comes to need a drink for every mood-one to calm down, one to perk up, one to celebrate, one to deal with disappointment, and so on.

The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.

Rocky Marciano had such guts and heart. He was something special.