I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.

The idea of directing a film is a strange one for me. I feel anti-mathematical, in a way, in that sense. I don't like when things make sense. I prefer if they don't.

I wasn't into the lunchbox and thermos ski slope, and that's where I was going.

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition, too.

Keep moving forward and do what you have to do for you.