I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.

My daughter, Asia, has been in many of my movies. I love working with her. In the beginning, I was not supportive of her being an actress, but now I think she is fantastic.

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.

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

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.