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When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.

When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me.

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

Growing up, I just loved movies. It was how I saw the world, which I wanted to learn more about.

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.