The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.

I think it would be nice to have a guilt free possibility to act out all kinds of sexual fantasies... So that I think is appealing. And today the only thing that exists like that is called a whorehouse... Where you still feel like you're exploiting so I don't want to do that.

The idea that we are the gods now, and we are doing things that our ancestors think are god-like is not a rhetorical question. You know what I mean? We really are as gods.

Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so cinema became sort of a waking dream where we can travel in space and time, where we can travel in mind. This became more than virtual reality, this became a real virtuality.

To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

I think in a way, what it is to be human is to transcend our boundaries. That is the human story.

We are the naked monkey that went to the moon. People seem to forget that.