Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated.

I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.

Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.