Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

I think true love is not only true personal love but totality of love, universal love - to be in love with everything manifest and everything unmanifest.

All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.