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I've seen 'Babel' four times. And each time I realize anew what a monumental project that had been for me.

While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.

'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

Films have become shorter in length, jumpier in style, and simpler in story so that they can be more easily transferred to once under-exploited international markets.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.