When you go to Cannes, people are there to fight, to scream - like football, the World Cup. Once I was working on a movie, and then when I went to Cannes, I went there to whistle at all the other movies in competition. You go to help your friends and fight with your friends' enemies.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.

In North America someone who doesn't know anybody, he can go... you can be respected for your own identity. It pushes your personality to become stronger.

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 brighter when I'm not drunk; when I'm drunk, I lose part of my IQ.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.