Sometimes you have the chance to do one movie, make it the best you can, put everything in it.

When you see a movie, it's like you're attending a show of magic in which the magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat. You don't know how he did it, but a part of you is fascinated, or hypnotized, by what happened, another part of your brain says, "Oh, I want to do the same thing! I want to be that wielder of that magic. I want to be that magician on stage, and do the same thing to other people."

I think that in the American film industry - or even in the European cinema - movies are made not to disturb any kind of class or any kind of minority.

Tokyo is like a huge futuristic pinball machine. It's like a bubble with two lost creatures inside a pinball machine that doesn't care about them. The other thing is, it's very colorful.

I'm very much into vengeance, in the way that if someone attacks you, you have to attack him twice if you want to survive.

From a simple, mammal perspective, you think you're going to make friends through the movie. You think, "Oh, this kind of humor that I play with will bring people that have a similar kind of humor. I'll make new friends," or something. You don't even think in terms of audience or of money.

Horsemeat is the most male meat you can think of.