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.

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.

I can make you part of something great and beautiful and still portray you as the ugly thing you are

Life is meaningless. It is our actions that add meaning to it.

Being content isn’t good enough. You deserve so much more—passion, joy, and excitement...

What is the meaning of life…to give life meaning.

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.

I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.

I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

Could it be that the planets are castaway heads.