“'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.”

“'2001: A Space Odyssey' is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also 'Blade Runner.' And 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is also one of my favorites. I'm always looking for sci-...”

“I'm very sensitive about the fact that there's not a lot of good work for women in cinema that also deals with strong characters. But 'strong character' doesn't mean 'masculine character' - but som...”

“If I wanted to have total control and be a dictator, I would do ice sculpture in my basement. If I want to make a movie, I'm going to work with 500 people, and I will have to work with their streng...”

“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.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”

“A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.”

“I dont need words, I just need you to come back. - Taryn”

“To achieve peace,we needed to have a war to start with.”

“Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.”

“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.”

“In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.”