100 Quotes by Zal Batmanglij

I love being on a movie set.

The art house is an elitist idea.

I think that 'Sound of My Voice' is about the claustrophobia of living today, and how do you crawl out of the claustrophobia towards the light?

I think about a lot of my favorite directors, and I think about their first films, and I have great admiration for the earthiness of those films.

It's not easy to learn to trust someone and let someone trust you.

I remember being a kid, I was a little kid when my dad took me to 'Munchausen.' I guess he took my whole family, but I kind of didn't want to go for some reason. Then we got there, and I was so mesmerized by the movie, and I was really taken by the young Sarah Polley. I didn't realize until many, many years later that it was Sarah Polley.

The California tract houses are like the mundane meeting the mystical. Sometimes if you're driving at twilight, and you see those houses, and they're starting to light up, there's something so beautiful, so ethereal about the fact that they're all pretty similar, set against this desert landscape and the light just hitting them a certain way.

'Sound of My Voice' had been written before 'Another Earth.'

It's so hard to shoot wealth. It doesn't show up on film.