I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

The Limits Of Control is not surrealism, but it is an experiment in which expectations are deliberately removed: expectations for narrative form, for action in a film, for certain emotional content. We wanted to remove those things and see if we could still make a film that was a beautiful film experience, with deliberately removing things many people would expect.

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being told, "Yeah, it's slow and has no plot."

My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big dramatic things that happen.

For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.