I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films; everything that is wrong in them is my fault.

Films like 'Babel' can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long.

If I had been at an assembly line for films, I don't know if I would be the best driver. I think I would have crashed the car.

When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.

To think that we can understand everything is such stupidity because our senses are so limited. We are so limited that to feel that we can understand the creation scientifically is a little bit naive. It's very childish.

Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.