If you keep looking backwards, you don't go anywhere.
I think 'A Serious Man' is genius.
If the audience sees and feels things are real, then they buy it.
This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.
Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.
I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.
I've always wanted to do a space movie.
I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.
I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.
The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.
I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be.
I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.
Culture is the air we breathe all around us.
I don't see myself making comedies always.
I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
I try to make pictures I would want to see.
I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.
I was very active in the peace movement, still am.
Praise be Allah and prayers and peace upon Mohammed.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
