Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

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