Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.

We need less perfect but more free films.

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

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

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.

You have the possibility to give light a dimension in time.

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