I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.

I don't think of an actor. I think in the character, and then I search for the actor. Usually I'm thinking without names, because they will change my idea. No big egos. If I want egos - just mine. That is enough.

Words don't heal. Art heals!

When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail."

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference.

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.