The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.

I'm a naturist at heart. I love being on beaches where everyone is naked. Ugly young people, beautiful old people, whatever. It's so unsexual and so liberating.

I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.