Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Listed Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988), Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003), Il maestro burattinaio (1993), Non aprite quella porta (1974), Empire (1964), Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Quick Billy (1971), Rose Hobart (1936) and Le nez (1963) as the 10 Greatest Films of All Time in the 2022 Sight & Sound Directors' Poll.

I was very shy, so I didn't really interact well with others. My friends were the kids of doctors, because we all lived in the hospital housing unit. Even now I like hospitals - that sterilised smell, it brings back all these memories. I'd see a lot of sick and dying people, but at the time, I didn't have a big philosophical way of thinking about illness and death. To me, it was just people - they come and go.