Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.

I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's one of the colors I couldn't live without.

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person.

The resistance to black-and-white is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.