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.

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.

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

My ship came in, then it sank!

The problem is solvable puzzle.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.

I didn't even know my bra size until I made a movie.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.

If the Republican Party shifts to the right, how will we know?

The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.

I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.