Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

I wanted something new, the supernatural. The witch, the sorcerer, I love this. I love the films of the witch and sorcerers and magic, its wonderful!

The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.