When I was five. That's when I started to love film.

I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

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 want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

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.