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.

For me, to catch, to celebrate the reality and life and friends and everything around me the very moment it happens - that's what is, that's what I'm possessed by.

As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.

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

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

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.