Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company.

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.

You start selling the movie before you make it.