Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.

An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep the shot, the exposure or the speed - slower or faster, etc. That's structuring. And then there is a second stage of structuring that comes later when I begin to put those pieces together.

My films are the celebration of reality, of life, of my friends, of actual daily life that passes and is gone tomorrow. We don't pay attention to it when it happens.

Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.

I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.