All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.

I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.

I think of a film as being like a toy train.

For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.

I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.

I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that you should do documentaries.

There is a new philosophy for weapons: it's more expensive to hurt people than to kill people. It's terrible. When you have a band of guys on the battlefield, if someone is dead, he's dead. If someone is injured then they have to take care of him, so six people are busy.